Brady and a violent thug together conspired to pervert the course of justice during Brady's capital murder trial
Garda killer Aaron Brady and a violent thug who together conspired to pervert the course of justice during Brady's capital murder trial have been sentenced by the Special Criminal Court to a combined total of five years in prison.
READ MORE - Probe into prison brawl involving Garda killer Aaron Brady and whether inmates drank homemade ‘hooch’ Brady's co-conspirator, Dean Byrne, was due to be released later this year having spent the last ten years in prison for multiple offences, including an aggravated burglary. Following Byrne's conviction last month for conspiring to persuade a witness in Brady's trial not to give evidence, Mr Justice Paul Burns at the three-judge court imposed a two-year sentence on Byrne that will begin when his previous sentences expire. Byrne, now aged 31, has been in prison since he was 21.
The court arrived at headline sentences of five years for Brady and four years for Byrne. Having considered mitigating factors and the fact that both are already serving lengthy sentences, he reduced those to three and two years. In August 2020, Brady formerly of New Road, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh was convicted by a jury of the murder of Det Gda Adrian Donohoe during a credit union robbery at Lordship, Bellurgan, Co Louth on January 25, 2013.
The video of parts of Mr Flynn's garda interview was uploaded to WhatsApp, Youtube and Facebook with text accusing Mr Flynn of "touting" and claiming he had charges against him in the US dropped in return for his statement. Mr Cahill's evidence helped to prove that Brady was not just a member of the robbery gang, but the gunman who shot and killed Det Gda Donohoe. Brady is serving a life sentence with a minimum time served of 40 years for that murder. He was also jailed for 14 years for the robbery of the credit union. The sentence imposed today will run consecutively with that sentence.
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