Limerick garda trial: Spontaneous cheering in court as five gardaí found not guilty

Top left - Eamonn O'Neill and Annmarie Hassett, Colm Geary. Bottom - Sergeant Michelle Leahy and Garda Tom McGlinchey. 

Spontaneous cheering and clapping broke out in a packed Limerick Circuit Criminal Court when four serving gardaí and a retired superintendent were found not guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

All five defendants, Eamon O’Neill, sergeants Anne Marie Hassett and Michelle Leahy and gardaí Tom McGlinchey and Colm Geary broke down when the verdicts were read out.