Edward McGrath, Dean Evans and Sharif Kelly get private evidence

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Edward McGrath, Dean Evans and Sharif Kelly remained charged with Peter Butterly’s murder after the Special Criminal Court ruled on 16 October 2014 that the public would be excluded while gardaí testified. Butterly was shot dead at the Huntsman Inn car park in Gormanston, Co Meath, on 6 March 2013.

The court ordered that the names and addresses of National Surveillance Unit officers be given to the defence but withheld from publication. McGrath and Evans also faced firearm charges relating to the same address and date; all three had pleaded not guilty.