BARRY Doyle will continue serving his life sentence for the murder of Limerick man Shane Geoghegan after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed his latest appeal on Wednesday.
In February 2012, Doyle of Portland Row in Dublin had been given mandatory life sentence after he was found guilty of killing Mr Geoghegan in a case of mistaken identity on November 9, 2008.
The convicted drug addict had been hired by the McCarthy/Dundon gang to carry out a shooting where a rival criminal had been the intended target.
However Doyle shot Mr Geoghegan as he left a neighbour’s house on his way back to his own home across the road.
After he was arrested and made his admissions to the murder, Doyle claimed that gardai induced him to confess.
This was one of Doyle’s main claims in his appeal to overturn the conviction.
18 months ago, the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction and the subsequent jail term after it found that the trial was conducted properly and the evidence put forward was in keeping with the normal rules.
This Wednesday morning, the seven judge court returned a majority decision and subsequently dismissed the appeal on all grounds including the claim that he was denied the right to a solicitor during garda interviews.
The judges also held that Doyle’s admission were not made as a result of threat or inducement by gardai.
