Fiancée makes call for end to trials by jury

THE fiancée of a convicted sex offender yesterday called for a change in the system under which people charged with serious sex offences are tried.

Fiancée makes call for   end to trials by jury

Michelle O’Sullivan, who got engaged to Danny Foley last month, said Ireland was one of the few countries where such accused people were tried by jury.

While conceding that she did not know much about the law, she felt it would be better to have trials by a court made up of three expert judges rather than by a jury of lay people who knew little about the law.

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