Court to rule on alleged McFarlane admissions
McFarlane’s counsel, Hugh Hartnett SC, submitted that the alleged admissions by McFarlane after his arrest in Dundalk in 1998, in relation to the kidnapping of supermarket executive Don Tidey, should not be admitted in evidence.
Mr Hartnett said evidence given by retired Detective Superintendent John Mc Elligot during a bail application by McFarlane in January 1998 was that the main evidence against McFarlane was fingerprint evidence.
