Image: Laura Hutton via RollingNews.ie Image: Laura Hutton via RollingNews.ie A CIVIL SERVANT in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been given an 11-month sentence for disclosing sensitive information about the arrest of a suspect in a dissident republican murder case.
He was convicted by Judge John Hughes following his eight-day non-jury trial, at Dublin District Court last month.Judge Hughes imposed consecutive sentences totalling 11-months with the final month suspended. Lennon was a staunch republican but that was not a crime, counsel said. He knew others who were also republican and who had gone further but he was not well disposed to the person who benefited from the leaked information.
The trial heard one of the people Lennon had contacted and bought Irish Republican Prisoner Welfare Association badges from on 7 September was Damien Metcalfe. Michael Delaney SC, prosecuting, asked the court to note the evidence of texts messages on 7 September. On that date, Lennon sent messages about mentioning, revenge, Karma, and “good news”.
A solicitor in the DPP’s office, who prepared a letter to a senior counsel about the Butterly case, had said Lennon was among the staff collecting letters for dispatch that day.CCTV evidence of his movements in work and footage of him looking at a letter before putting it away as his supervisor approached was shown during the trial.
He claimed several members of staff in the DPP’s building had read files of cases and he was following suit but he had raised security concerns at work.
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