Michael McDowell accuses undercover gardaí, who supplied gunman with seized weapons, of ‘entrapment’
Michael McDowell accuses undercover gardaí, who supplied gunman with seized weapons, of ‘entrapment’, who took his own life in a Carlow shopping centre, were accused of “concealing” the “true facts” from a judge when he was deciding whether to grant bail.While awaiting trial on the firearms charges, Mr Fitzgerald , from Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, stole another weapon from a neighbour and
He said Mr Fitzgerald sought firearms on “the proton email aspect of the dark web. Apparently Interpol or some other international agency alerted the Garda to this inquiry”. “The car proceeded some distance away to another place, where it was intercepted by members of An Garda Síochána, who smashed the windows, dragged out the occupants and made an arrest.”
Mr McDowell said gardaí had informed the court the three wanted the weapons to shoot them in the woods but “gardaí wanted to deprive them of bail, which meant being imprisoned pending trial”. The former attorney general and minister for justice said “we cannot tolerate untruths being told to an Irish District Court judge and we certainly cannot allow a situation where the judicial process is deployed on a false basis to deprive people of their liberty and to conceal from members of the judiciary the true facts when they are determining whether someone should be granted bail.”
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