Scientific and forensic evidence was adequately marshalled by trial judge in double murder case

Criminal law – appeal of murder convictions – Grangegorman murders – prohibition of the trial because of delay refused by the High Court – admissions made by the appellant to the gardai in respect of the murders – forensic evidence – boot print said to match a boot owned by the appellant left in blood at the scene of the murders – s. 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 – access to a solicitor – charge to the jury – whether the appellant was in lawful detention at the time when admissions were made by him – it could not be said that the prosecution evidence was so weak as to justify the withdrawal of the case from the jury or the granting of a direction to the jury – decision to allow the prosecution to adduce matters from the interviews of Dean Lyons – letters intercepted by the gardaí – Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983 – interception of all three letters was permissible – foreman of the jury had applied twelve months previously for enrolment in An Garda Síochána – late disclosures of reports – stolen VW car – disclosure failures re contamination events in laboratory – RTE broadcast – failure to explain and marshal the scientific evidence – appeal dismissed.