Cardinal’s ‘secret deal’ for arrest of Smyth

A FORMER senior RUC officer has claimed the late Cardinal Cahal Daly made a secret deal with a chief constable in the North to arrange the arrest and imprisonment of notorious paedophile priest, Brendan Smyth.

Retired detective superintendent Kevin Sheehy has revealed that the late cardinal brokered an arrangement with former RUC chief constable Hugh Annesley in 1994 to hand Smyth over to the civil authorities.

It resulted from the cardinal’s frustration at the failure of the priest’s own Norbertine order to deal with a series of complaints against the serial sex abuser.