Aaron Brady has been accused of wearing the shooting of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe as a ‘badge of honour’ to intimidate or curry favour with people.
Mr. Brady, from Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh, denies murdering Detective Donohoe during an armed robbery outside a credit union in Co. Louth.
In his closing speech for the prosecution, Lorcan Staines SC accused Aaron Brady of telling straight out lies – big ones, little ones, clever ones, and stupid ones.
He claimed he was the one who pulled the trigger outside Lordship CU on Jan 25th 2013, and that he knew his target was an on-duty Garda.
He accused him of using evidence disclosed by the prosecution as ‘building blocks’ to create a false alibi for the time of the shooting.
He described him as a “skilled and practiced liar” who takes real events and superimposes them onto the falsity.
While in the US, Mr. Staines claimed he made comments admitting to the shooting, while either crying or lamenting or bragging with his chest puffed out.
He asked if all the circumstantial evidence in the case could be just a lot of bad luck? Just one enormous mistake? ‘If that were so,’ he said, ‘it would be some string of unfortunate events’.
