McCabe widow hopes images will end issue of killers’ release

THE wife of Detective Garda Gerry McCabe consented to the publication of photographs of her dead husband in order to put the subject of his killers’ possible early release to rest.

The decision by Anne McCabe followed reports last week that the Government was willing to release the killers of Garda McCabe if there was an end to IRA paramilitary activity.

The photographs published in the Sunday World newspaper show the detective's lifeless body after being hit by a hail of bullets fired by IRA robbers in Adare, Co Limerick, on June 7, 1996.