McCabe prisoner free in months

THOUGH denied his freedom yesterday, a man involved in the events surrounding the shooting dead of Det Gda Jerry McCabe in 1996 will be free in just over three months.

John Quinn will be released under normal remission rules after serving three quarters of a six-year sentence for conspiracy to commit a robbery in Adare, Co Limerick, in June 1996. A member of his legal team confirmed he would be released in July.

Quinn and Michael O’Neill, jailed for 11 years for the manslaughter of Det Gda McCabe, lost their High Court action in which they claimed that they should be immediately released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. Both men are being held as IRA prisoners in Castlerea, Co Roscommon.