Murder trial witness admits lying to gardaí

The main witness in the case of a 22-year-old man on trial for murdering another man during a botched drug collection, has admitted that he lied to gardaí about the events.

In his evidence to the Central Criminal Court, Thomas Maher said he did not want gardaí to know he and his best friend, the deceased Paul Keegan, were involved in a “substantial drugs collection” at the time of his death.