Informer handling ‘prevented fair trial’

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

A Dublin man jailed for life for murder nearly eight years ago must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction.

Peter Kenny, aged 35, of McCarthy’s Terrace, Rialto, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of John Carroll, aged 33, who was shot while socialising in Grumpy Jack’s pub in the Coombe, Dublin, in February 2009.