Freed McCabe killer ‘should serve another 30 years’

AS ONE of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe walked free from Castlerea Prison yesterday, a spokesman for the family of the slain garda said Michael O’Neill should be doing another 30 years for murder.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell who personally contacted Ann McCabe yesterday, agreed that O’Neill should still be inside for murder.

Speaking on a canvass in Dublin city centre yesterday, Mr McDowell said: “I wish all of those killers had been given life imprisonment for murder, but unfortunately at the time the Provisional Movement intimidated a lot of witnesses and as a result a manslaughter verdict was handed down, rather than a murder conviction.