Court of Appeal upholds a murder conviction from the Special Criminal Court, affirming the original decision and rejecting the appellant's claims regarding the misuse of CCTV evidence and breaches of privacy, on the grounds that the appellant's presence on public streets, captured by various CCTV systems, did not violate any reasonable expectation of privacy, and there was no wrongdoing by the Gardaí in gathering the footage for the murder investigation; and the court also dismisses arguments that the evidence should be excluded due to potential breaches of the data protection regime by private CCTV operators.
Murder conviction - appeal - Special Criminal Court - CCTV evidence - privacy breach - data protection - Gardaí investigation - reasonable expectation of privacy - admissibility of evidence - public streets - criminal conspiracy - exclusionary rule - constitutional rights.