FEDERAL prosecutor John McKay travelled to Ireland intending to visit family in Nenagh and get away from his political trouble with the Attorney General’s office.

After listening to six weeks of argument, tears and revelations, more of the jurors who spared Zacarias Moussaoui’s life were moved by the al-Qaida conspirator’s turbulent, deprived childhood than by claims that he was a delusional psychotic seeking martyrdom.