€6k reward in killer hunt
A REWARD of €6,000 has been offered for details leading to the capture of an on-the-run murderer.
The PSNI said Thomas Mccabe, 56, had been released on licence but it was revoked in 2018.
It added: “Since then we have conducted a number of enquiries to establish Mccabe’s whereabouts.
“He is around 5ft 8ins, of medium build with short grey-coloured hair. We believe he has connections to Newry, Newtownabbey and Dublin.”
A MAN accused of murdering Adrian Donohoe told a bartender in the US on three occasions he shot a garda, the Central Criminal Court heard.
Daniel Cahill, giving evidence via video link from New York, added Aaron Brady “ranted” about having blasted an officer after he was punched in the eye during a pub fight.
On another occasion, the accused was drinking heavily and “broke down” at the bar, telling Mr Cahill he was involved in “robbery gone wrong” that led to him shooting a garda.
Brady, 28, from New Road, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, denies murdering Det Gda Adrian Donohoe at Lordship Credit Union in Co Louth on January 25, 2013.
The defendant has also pleaded not guilty to robbing €7,000 in cash and cheques during the same incident.
Mr Cahill, 28, from Dublin, moved to New York in 2013 and started working in the Coachman’s Bar in the Bronx in December that year.
He said over the following two years he saw Brady at the pub on most weekends.
Mr Cahill recalled on one night the accused was punched by another man and suffered a gash above his eye.
The witness said Brady was “shook and erratic and emotional” and kept saying he was going to kill the pub goer who struck him. Mr Cahill added: “He said he [the other man] should know better because he had shot a member of An Garda Siochana and it was a stupid thing to retaliate or mess with him.”
Mr Cahill couldn’t recall when this happened but thought it was 2014.
The witness remembered a second occasion in the Coachman’s when Brady was drinking heavily.
Mr Cahill said the accused asked him had “he ever killed anyone” and “broke down” before saying he had been involved in a “robbery gone wrong that had led to him shooting someone. A member of An Garda Siochana”.
The witness described a third incident in 2015 where he met Brady and three others at a house party.
He said these men were “trying to outdo each other” in a bragging contest to see who was the toughest.
Mr Cahill added Mr Brady “decided he had the most experience because he was the only person who had killed someone”.
The witness said after getting a job at the Brazen Fox pub in New York, he was flagged down by Brady in 2016 and he allegedly told him he thought he was going to go to prison and he was “in the papers in Ireland”.
His evidence will continue today in front of Mr Justice
Michael White and a jury.
Adrian Donohoe
Aaron Brady