Finalised court cases

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/03/15/the-full-story-of-the-trial-of-stephen-silver-for-the-murder-of-garda-colm-horkan/

In his garda interviews Silver showed "strength of will", resisted attempts by gardaí to build rapport and showed himself to be "not at all suggestible". At one point he feigned sleep for several minutes while gardaí asked him questions, the professor said, showing an "intact ability to act reflectively and not impulsively and having regard to his own best interest as he sees it." He said "fleeting" ideas Silver had the day prior to the shooting about MI6 and the SAS were not fixed false beliefs and therefore not delusions. He said Silver had a "long experience of behaving in a disruptive way" that required his family or members of the public to call gardaí. It was his "learned impunity", the professor said, that caused him to become more irritable and angry as gardaí continued to detain and question him following the shooting. The professor explained: "He had learned that he could expect not to be charged and, at most, to be treated in a psychiatric hospital.

[From the Bunker]

[joemamas]

40 year sentence handed down.
Hopefully the family can truly begin the healing process, two months shy of a very traumatic three years for them.
Colm was a true gentleman and a very good person. Senseless Murder.

[seafoid]

Very hard on both families. He will be in prison until age 74 at the youngest.