Murder trial witness feared garda "set up"

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard that the State’s main witness took a month to go to the gardaí because he claims one of the accused men has "friends in the guards".

Murder trial witness feared garda "set up"

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard that the State’s main witness took a month to go to the gardaí because he claims one of the accused men has "friends in the guards".

Under cross examination by defence barrister Mr Brendan Nix SC, 20-year-old Joseph O’Callaghan was asked why it took him a month before he went to the gardaí to tell them about the information he knew about the fatal shooting.

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