Court reserves judgment in Cork INLA case
The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of INLA membership who were arrested during a garda investigation into a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.
The court heard closing defence submissions today and Mr Justice Paul Butler, presiding, said the court would give its judgment at a later date.
The three men were arrested in February last year by gardaí investigating a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.
Edward McGarrigle (aged 43), Melmont Gardens, Strabane, Co Tyrone, Neil Myles (aged 54), of no fixed abode, and John McCrossan (aged 47), Ballycoleman Estate, Strabane, Co Tyrone have pleaded not guilty to membership the INLA on February 22 last year.
It is the prosecution's case that the four men were involved in a plot to commit a crime at the home of a Cork businessman.
Assistant Commissioner Kevin Ludlow told the trial that he believed Myles was an INLA member while Detective Chief Superintendent Philip Kelly said he believed that McGarrigle and McCrossan were INLA members.
The prosecution case is also based on sightings of the accused meeting on different occasions in Cork and Dublin when they were under surveillance by the gardaí.
