A JURY resumed their deliberations this Monday in the trial of a retired superintendent and four serving Gardaà accused of unlawfully squaring away traffic pending or potential road traffic prosecutions.
After eight weeks hearing evidence at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, the jury, consisting of eight men and four women, retired last Friday afternoon with just over two hours of deliberations.
The jury resumed deliberating this Monday morning and had been trying to reach a verdict on all of the charges against all five accused for over five hours.
The accused retired superintendent, Eamon O’Neill, is charged with 27 counts of engaging in conduct tending or intended to pervert the course of justice when he was a serving in the Mid West region between 2017 and 2019.
Mr O’Neill, along with four co-accused serving GardaÃ, Sergeant Anne Marie Hassett, Sergeant Michelle Leahy, Garda Colm Geary, and Garda Tom McGlinchey have denied a total of 39 counts of unlawfully interfering in potential or pending prosecutions involving 26 motorists.
Due to a prior arranged situation, the jury is to lose one juror this afternoon, reducing the jurors to 11.