Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe Image: Garda Press Office Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe Image: Garda Press Office THE MAN ACCUSED of murdering Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe “wore the shooting like a badge of honour” when he moved to America and believed he was “beyond the long arm of the law”, a barrister has told the Central Criminal Court.
Staines also described the deceased as a “good man, a good husband, father, brother son, he was a member of his community, he was a colleague”. He said that when Brady pulled the trigger, “he knew he was pulling that trigger at a member of An Garda Síochána.” He reminded the jury that Brady described himself as a victim of a garda campaign and the media. Counsel said it would be “easy to ridicule that” but he wanted to look at it coldly and dispassionately and ask, “could this all be a mistake, a lot of bad luck, a lot of strange circumstances that could happen?”
He said the jury would have to believe that all the phones belonging to Brady, Suspect A and Suspect B were inactive for “innocent reasons” for more than two hours at a time that “coincides perfectly with the robbery at Lordship Credit Union”. Cahill, who said he heard Brady admit to shooting a garda on three occasions, would have to have done so out of personal animus or because he was under threat from Homeland Security, Staines said. While Staunton, “an American citizen with no animus whatsoever mistakenly told you what you heard”.
Staines reminded the jury that the accused told his own counsel that after leaving school aged 16 he had worked “constantly” and was never on the dole for more than a month. Staines asked the jury if they thought other aspects of his evidence “rang true”, such as when he said Suspect A was earning a six figure sum in America and wouldn’t be involved in stealing cars.
Staines criticised the manner of Brady’s defence, adding: “The criticisms I make are of Aaron Brady, not of his lawyers. He has been provided with some of the best lawyers in the State who do their jobs to the highest professional standards. Staines today described it as a “completely baseless suggestion”. He said Cahill had come from a difficult background but had no convictions, got a job as a hairdresser and then went to New York where he has worked as a barman.
He also described the five-step process of making such a gun ready to fire: the manual loading of a live cartridge into the weapon, pulling back the bolt or pump mechanism to load the cartridge into position, manually releasing the safety, pointing the weapon at the target and applying three to four pounds of pressure to the trigger.
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