Garda’s evidence clashes with testimony

THE evidence by a garda at the Morris Tribunal yesterday clashed with the testimony of his cousin this week.

Garda Seamus Patton and farmer John Patton are in conflict over their memories of a conversation they had following the mystery roadside death of cattle dealer Richie Barron, in Raphoe, Co Donegal, almost seven years ago.

John Patton told the inquiry he spotted Frank McBrearty, junior, in the car park of the Raphoe nightclub his family owns on the night of the death, together with another unidentified man, while insisting he saw nothing suspicious in his behaviour at the time.