Gardaí lied about assaulting Carthy in 1998

IN another bleak day for the gardaí, Mr Justice Barr challenged the veracity of evidence given by two officers to the tribunal.

He concluded Garda Turlough Bruen and Garda Frank McHugh had physically abused John Carthy while interrogating him about an offence in 1998.

That incident was one of the principle reasons for Mr Carthy’s “deep animosity towards, and distrust of, the police”, the judge said, and was a factor in the subsequent events which led to his death two years later.