Inside Ireland’s Witness Protection Programme
22 October - 25 minsIreland’s Witness Protection Programme has always operated in the dark. Created in 1997 after the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, it was designed to stop intimidation from derailing major criminal trials. But as convicted torturer and Hutch gang associate Jonathan Dowdall begins a new life abroad — a move expected to cost the State almost one million euro — fresh questions are being asked about how the system really works.
In today’s podcast Shane Beatty sits down with Aaron Harte-Hughes, who teaches law and criminology at Maynooth University, to explain the hidden machinery behind Ireland’s witness security system: who decides who qualifies, how new identities are created, how famil...
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