Nicola Tallent

The decisions are answerable to nobody.

We have had a series of things that have happened before the courts.

We've had the disastrous

absolutely disastrous Regency Hotel trial where Jonathan Dowdall was given a place on the state's witness protection programme along with his entire family where he was initially charged with murder where a far lesser charge was accepted and he has been facilitated to move out of the country to a new location under a new identity along with his wife and all his children and his father

and has been facilitated with that, despite the fact that he was an appalling witness, which the judges pretty much described as a liar.

OK, so we have that.

And before I finish my rant, you have Gerry Hutch standing trial on one single charge of murder.

And the judges said pretty much in the judgment that had they been presented with other charges, it might have been a different case.

than him being found not guilty.

You have more recently Sean McGovern being brought home in absolute, you know, in the glare of the media across the world as Daniel Kinahan's number two.

You have him brought home from Dubai, extradited to the country.

You know, the first of those that have been sanctioned by the US Treasury.

He's brought home to face a murder charge and instead a deal is done.

And he pleads guilty to a lesser charge.

You remind me, it's just gone out of my head what he pleaded guilty to directing a criminal organization.

Okay, now that is going to presumably...

give him a fairly hefty sentence although we don't quite know but nonetheless these deals are being done with people that you wonder

Should there be no criticism about this?

Should those Hennessys not have stood trial for a far higher charge, which they clearly deserve when you see what happened here?

Well, the clear flaw in the case was Barry Moore wasn't going to stand there and shoulder it all himself.