Wife of Garda Adrian Donohoe tells court of moment she identified body at scene of fatal shooting
The wife of detective garda Adrian Donohoe identified his body 90 minutes after he was shot dead by armed raiders during a credit union robbery, the Central Criminal Court heard on Thursday.
He said Mrs Donohoe wanted to visit the scene and at 11pm that night she identified her husband’s body as it lay in the credit union car park. Jane Murphy BL read a report by former Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid Jaber. Counsel told the jury that Dr Jaber carried out a post mortem on the deceased at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth on January 26, 2013.
Leona White told Mr Staines that she was driving on the Carlingford to Dundalk Road that night when she heard one loud bang which she knew was a gunshot because she lives near a gun range. As she approached Bellurgan National School, which is across the road from Lordship Credit Union, a woman standing in the road flagged her down.
She thought it unusual so she pulled in to see what was going on. The car at the gateway of the credit union was not small or big, it might have been a hatchback and was “bigger than a Golf” and dark-coloured, she said. The witness got out of the car and went to the car park where he saw a man he now knows as former Detective Garda Joe Ryan who was “agitated” and told him someone was dead. Mr Birch then saw the body of Det Gda Donohoe. The witness agreed with Justin McQuade BL for the defence that in his statement to gardai he said his wife identified the loud bangs as “gunshot” rather than a “shotgun”.
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