A former Garda sergeant today denied he had been spitting and hitting the table while interviewing a suspect.

A GARDA Sergeant yesterday denied telling a publican his premises would becontinuously raided by gardaí in a bid to extract information from him over thedeath of a Donegal cattle dealer.

A Garda sergeant today denied a suspect was violently manhandled during his arrest by being pulled from his car and thrown across the bonnet.

A RETIRED garda sergeant yesterday admitted pushing a post-mortem photograph in the face of a Donegal publican.

Cormac O’Keeffe

DONEGAL publican Frank McBrearty Snr, who has claimed years of garda harassment over the unsolved hit-and-run death of cattle dealer Richie Barron, yesterday stormed out of the Morris Tribunal, vowing never to return.

A DISGRACED former garda superintendent warned senior officers that extortionate phone calls made from a colleague’s home would haunt the force, it was claimed yesterday.

A Garda sergeant who served with a United Nations police team in Bosnia in the 1990s today claimed he was not fit to give evidence at the Morris Tribunal.

A man arrested in connection with the murder of a Raphoe cattle dealer was taken to a remote station to ensure senior gardai involved in the case could not “interfere” with him, it was claimed today.

DISCREPANCIES in the statement of Noel McBride which incriminated the McBrearty family in the death of Richie Barron in Raphoe, Co Donegal, were never followed up with essential inquiries.

SUPERINTENDENT Kevin Lennon dismissed evidence that a key witness in the investigation into the death of Richie Barron in Raphoe, Co Donegal, could not be placed in the town the night the cattledealer died, it was claimed yesterday.