New Age Traveller attempts plea change

A New Age Traveller about to be sentenced for a killing on a campsite in Leitrim in 1998 has tried to change his plea to not guilty, claiming new evidence that shows Garda corruption.

New Age Traveller attempts plea change

A New Age Traveller about to be sentenced for a killing on a campsite in Leitrim in 1998 has tried to change his plea to not guilty, claiming new evidence that shows Garda corruption.

Last June, three new age travellers - Andrew Gordon Roche (36), a father-of four, with an address in Drumlease, Dromohair, Co. Leitrim; Keith Cooper (25), with an address at Gortimar, Manorhamilton, and Mark Francis Barber (33), a father-of-one, with an address at the New Age Traveller settlement in Boihy, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim - appeared in the Central Criminal Court to go on trial for the murder of Elliott Colin Double, otherwise known as Elliott Robertson, at a campsite on the mountainside at Boihy, Co Leitrim on October 6 1998.

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