Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Brendan McConville and John Paul Wooton were convicted of a murder under the controversial joint enterprise doctrine, which holds that a person who assists or encourages a crime can be held just as legally responsible as the perpetrator of the crime. The lack of evidence in this case is frightening. Central to the prosecution case was the evidence of a man identified only as witness M, who came forward a year after the murder of Stephen Carroll. He was drunk when he came forward. He was shortsighted but claimed that he saw the defendants from a long distance.

As Deputy O'Sullivan pointed out, his father later came forward to say no one should be in prison on the evidence of his son because he is a Walter Mitty character, who got £50,000 from The Sunand several payments from the PSNI for his efforts. This is a complete disgrace. One would struggle to find a worse case of injustice than that of the Craigavon two and one of these days it will become very obvious. In the meantime, they are having to spend many years in Maghaberry Prison, deemed last year the worst prison in Europe.

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