Garda accused of telling lies in shotgun case

The lawyer for a man charged with carrying a pump-action shotgun during an attempted aggravated burglary accused a garda of telling great lies in the witness box as the officer said he clearly saw the defendant at the crime scene.

Brendan Nix, for Niall Fitzpatrick, made the accusations during his cross-examination of Garda Alan Lyon, a member of the Garda Regional Support Unit, who said he saw the accused on the night in question.

“My client was not there, he was elsewhere,” Mr Nix told Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.