Garda killer raises concerns about negative publicity from trial for perverting course of justice

In August 2020, Aaron Brady was convicted of murdering Detective Garda Donohoe

Aaron Brady (pictured) and his co-accused Dean Byrne are charged with conspiring to persuade a State witness not to testify during Brady's trial for the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe during a robbery at Lordship Credit Union, Bellurgan, Jenkinstown, Co Louth, on January 25, 2013. File picture: Ciara Wilkinson

Lawyers for Aaron Brady, who shot Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe dead in 2013, have raised a concern about publicity arising from a trial that was due to begin on Monday in which he is accused of perverting the course of justice.

Michael O'Higgins SC, for Brady, told the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court that Brady is still awaiting the outcome of an appeal, heard last October, against his conviction for murdering Det. Gda Donohoe. If the appeal is successful, Mr O'Higgins said his client would likely face a retrial at the Central Criminal Court.