McCabe killers ‘would have been freed under October agreement’

The Department of Justice has refused to confirm or deny reports that the IRA killers of Garda Jerry McCabe were to be released from prison under the aborted peace deal that was supposed to restart the peace process last October.

The deal, which involved a choreographed series of announcements by the various parties to the peace process, collapsed when the UUP refused to accept the decommissioning body's statement on IRA disarmament.