NORTHERN IRELAND
Ulster Herald
A SOLICITOR, charged alongside a priest with perverting justice, is to argue to have the case thrown out of court.
Committal proceedings were scheduled to take place at Dungannon Magistrates Court, potentially sending the case against 54-year-old solicitor Patrick Mallon, and Father Joseph John Quinn (48) to the Crown Court for trial but that was adjourned again after Mallon’s solicitor Aidan Quinn revealed he would be launching an abuse of process application.
The PE was initially scheduled at the beginning of March. In court Mr Quinn told District Judge John Meehan the application would be “on two limbs” but did not expand on them, asking instead for two weeks to lodge skeleton arguments.
Dungannon based solicitor Mallon, from Upper Parklands, and Fr Quinn, from Ardmore Park in Coalisland, each face two charges of perverting the course of justice in that they allegedly attempted to pressurise or persuade witnesses to withdraw statements made to police between February 1 and 15
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