Leaks from corrupt gardai, to vile gutter journalists responsible for deaths

 

Gardai in sinister plot that could lead to accused's death, court told

He produced a collection of articles by crime correspondents Paul Williams ('Sunday World') and Ken Foy ('Star on Sunday'), as well as writers for the 'Sunday Independent', Irish Independent and 'The Star'.

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The gardai have been accused in the High Court of deliberately mounting a sinister plot that could lead to the shooting dead of a 33-year-old Dublin man suspected of crime.

Eamon Dunne told Mr Justice Bryan McMahon the gardai were responsible for a campaign of orchestrated adverse publicity by feeding crime correspondents with fictitious stories that he was a notorious gangland boss.

Barrister Alan Toal, counsel for Mr Dunne, of Dunsoghly Drive, Finglas, Dublin 11, said his client had been charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to rob about €900,000 from a Chubb cash-in-transit van in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 2007 but would be pleading not guilty.

Mr Dunne said in a sworn statement that since the murder of Martin "Marlo" Hyland and his having been charged in connection with the Celbridge robbery, his name, by way of nicknames, had been appearing in a multitude of newspapers under sensational headlines.

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He produced a collection of articles by crime correspondents Paul Williams ('Sunday World') and Ken Foy ('Star on Sunday'), as well as writers for the 'Sunday Independent', Irish Independent and 'The Star'.

Dunne said the information in the articles could not have been established by the journalists, save with the unlawful assistance of the gardai.

He said he refuted every such assertion or suggestion as to his supposed criminal empire or criminal involvement. Mr Toal told the court the gardai had twice served his client with official warnings that his life was at risk and a 'Sunday World' article had stated "this brutal godfather" . . . "will have a short life expectancy" . . . as another would be waiting in the wings to "take him out".

Dunne said this, and other articles, clearly had as their origin intelligence claimed to have been harvested by the gardai.

Mr Toal told the court Mr Dunne had complained to the Garda Ombudsman Commission about garda collusion with journalists but his complaint had been rejected.

Judge McMahon said if there was a risk to Mr Dunne's life in existence now there was nothing the court could do to ameliorate that threat by issuing injunctions. He said it was a matter for Mr Dunne to continue with his claim for damages for the alleged conscious, deliberate and capricious exposure of the plaintiff to risk.