Court rejects McCabe killers’ bid for early release

TWO of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe lost their bid to get early release under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement in the High Court yesterday.

Mr Justice Daniel Herbert rejected an appeal by Pearse McAuley and Jeremiah Sheehy that they should be released because they were “qualifying prisoners” under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

The judge ruled that there was no unjustifiable discrimination between the two men and the 57 other prisoners who were freed under the agreement.