THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL Court has heard that a motorbike mechanic charged with the murder of Garda Colm Horkan was roaring and shouting in the street daring “the armed squad to come down and to have a sniper to get a good shot” on the night the garda was shot dead.
Garda Raymond O’Dowd gave evidence to counsel for the prosecution, Michael Delaney SC that he was on duty at Castlerea Garda Station on 17 June 2020, when a male entered the station. He said the man was tall and in his 40s, with long dark hair beginning to grey and a beard. The witness said that once the man had said his piece he turned and walked outside, where he got into the driver’s seat of a blue van. Garda O’Dowd said that the van was a blue Volkswagen registered to Stephen Silver.
Witness Francis McDonnell gave evidence to Delaney that he brought a motorbike to Silver on June 17 to have repairs done. He said that when he arrived at Silver’s shed, he saw Silver and another man that he did not know. He said this second man was around 5’6”, bald with two tattoos on his head. Murren said that at 11pm that night, “the van came rushing down the road again”. She said the van parked in Coyne’s driveway and she heard loud music coming from it.She said the man with the ponytail took a fishing chair and what looked like two gear bags out of the van and put the chair in the driveway with the bags either side.“He sat down in the chair and started giving out, like he was waiting for somebody to come down the road, like a gang was going to come down the road,” said Murren.
“It was very reckless driving, fast driving,” she said. She gave evidence that she saw him doing skids on the road, causing smoke to come out from the wheel. She said she then saw the man standing on the road roaring and shouting up the estate.
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