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Appeal ruling over Geoghegan murder

The man in jail for shooting rugby player Shane Geoghegan in Limerick nearly 7 years ago is due to f...
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6:21 AM - 8 Jun 2015



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Appeal ruling over Geoghegan murder

TodayFM
TodayFM

6:21 AM - 8 Jun 2015



The man in jail for shooting rugby player Shane Geoghegan in Limerick nearly 7 years ago is due to find out today if he has won an appeal against his murder conviction.

Crime figure, John Dundon from Hyde Road, Limerick was also found guilty of the murder.

Shane Geoghegan was gunned down metres from his home in Dooradoyle in Limerick in a case of mistaken identity.

Barry Doyle was arrested and confessed to the shooting.

He was convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court in 2012.

However on appeal his lawyers claimed that gardai had induced him into making admissions.

It was argued that gardai used his partner Victoria Gunnery and their child with a hole in his heart as tools of psychological oppression.

This they said was done by gardai telling Barry Doyle that his partner was also in custody and therefore away from their sick child because of him.

The Court of Appeal is due to rule on the case today.



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