Nicola Tallent

The guy was terrified.

But you had plenty of evidence around him

between the medical evidence, the photographs, and you had, you know, his initial statement to work with there.

The DPP saw the book of evidence in the beginning and deemed that there was enough evidence there to bring all five of them forward to the special criminal court and to charge them with these more serious offences.

So you can't turn around and say the DPP didn't think there was enough evidence in the book of evidence because the DPP did.

But the DPP did a deal in the aftermath.

which is easier for the state, cheaper on everybody.

And yet you have these guys sitting there laughing at the guards and laughing at the justice system.

And I think the problem is as well that, and you can see it, you can feel it there today in the court, that has empowered the Hennessys.

Yeah.

Those sentences,

have empowered them because they have put it up to their community.

They've put it up to the guards who have to police them.

And anybody who's seen that series, The K, will see how, in the name of God, do those guards go out and do their job.

I don't know.

To be treated like that, they have some sort of a...

incredible resilience built up to be going into those areas, to be facing it up to those guys because they're scary looking guys and they do it.

And they have, the Hennessys have told all their young underlings, their kids that surround them, that they have around them because nobody probably their own age or their own build would go anywhere near them.

So they have told them all, oh, we're going to beat this.

Don't worry about it.