The Central Executive Committee of the Garda Representative Association has called on the Director of Public Prosecutions. They want him to use his statutory powers to appeal, what they call, the leniency of the sentences imposed on the four men who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.
Two of the four were jailed for 12 years, the other two for 14 years.
They had originally been charged with capital murder, which carries a penalty of 40 years without remission, but because several prosecution witnesses failed to give the evidence they were expected to give, a plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter was accepted.
