Tattoo is 'pictorial admission' of involvement in robbery where garda was murdered, court told

The tattoo depicted four males with hats, a large BMW car, a pistol, a number of rounds of ammunition, wads of money, a knuckle duster and a female figure with a balaclava

Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot dead during the robbery of Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan, Co. Louth, on January 25, 2013.

It is the State's contention that an accused's back tattoo amounts to a "pictorial admission" of his involvement in the robbery of a Dundalk credit union during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was shot dead, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A close-up photograph of a large tattoo drawn across Brendan Treanor's upper back, which was photographed by gardaí upon his arrest in April 2021, was displayed on Tuesday on several screens in the three-judge court.