2023-10-04
Plausible Aaron Brady jury were worried about dying from Covid during trial, appeal lawyers argue
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Brady, who was jailed in 2020 for a minimum of 40 years for the murder of the detective, has launched a bid to overturn his conviction in a six-day hearing, in what the appellate court heard today was "one of the longest cases ever" before it. Brady was also sentenced to 14 years for the robbery, a sentence that will run concurrently with the life sentence.; Whilst the barrister accepted that all criminal trials at hearing in March 2020 continued to finalisation, he said most of those cases had finished within two to three days. "It was a ghost town in here and we were the only case working, driving in and out of here was something like a movie set, you have to ask yourself why was this case different from all other cases," he said.