Court told of contract to shoot garda

A detective sergeant told a judge yesterday his station colleagues received a 999 call saying he was going to be shot.

A few months later, Mr Justice Bernard Barton heard during a Garda Compensation claim, a bullet was found under the windscreen wiper of Det Sgt Joseph O’Hara’s private car.

Det Sgt O’Hara, aged 53, told a High Court hearing that, several years earlier, after having opposed bail for a defendant allegedly involved in gangland feuds, he received a call from his colleagues in Tallaght Garda Station warning him there was a contract out to shoot him.