Claim some solicitors acting as gang ‘intelligence officers’

A STATE solicitor has claimed some solicitors are acting as “criminal intelligence officers for criminal gangs”.

Michael Murray, the state solicitor for Limerick city, made his comments yesterday in support of the revised new Criminal Justice Act.

“One of the provisions will allow a judge to hear, in camera, applications in the absence of a prisoner and the prisoner’s legal team on reasons why that person should be further detained in the course of an investigation.