A 33 year old man charged in connection with a robbery in Co Louth eight years ago - during which Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was murdered - has been sent forward for trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court.
The book of evidence in the case was today served on Brendan Treanor, with an address at Emer Terrace, Castletown Road, Dundalk.
The defendant is facing trial on two charges - allegedly robbing 7 thousand euro in cash and assorted cheques at Lordship Credit Union, Bellurgan on January 25th 2013, and with conspiring with two named individuals and others between September 11th 2012 and January 23rd 2013 - both dates inclusive, to enter residential premises as trespassers with the intention of stealing keys of the householders’ motor vehicles.
After administering the alibi warning to the accused, Judge Eirinn McKiernan remanded Brendan Treanor in custody to a sitting of a Special Criminal Court and granted legal aid to cover one Senior and one Junior Counsel.
