Gardaí ‘planted gun in bid to incriminate man’

GARDAÍ planted a gun in an innocent man’s car in an attempt to incriminate him, Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris told the Dáil yesterday.

During the special sitting to discuss the two reports of the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption in Donegal, Mr Ferris raised the case of James Sheehan.

Mr Sheehan was arrested on August 17, 1989, and taken to Tralee garda station. A gun was discovered four hours later in his car.