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AARON BRADY HAS been sentenced to life in prison for the capital murder of Garda Detective Adrian Donohoe.
Under the Criminal Justice Act of 1990, the judge was required to declare that Brady had to serve a minimum prison sentence of 40 years.
Judge White also sentenced Brady to 14 years for robbery, a sentence that will run concurrently with life in prison.
Brady was found guilty by a majority jury verdict of 11 to one on August 11 this year after the trial.
He was sentenced today in the Central Criminal Court. Special arrangements were made to allow gardaí at the Dundalk Garda station and others to view the proceedings remotely.
Adrian Donohoe was on active duty when he was assassinated on January 25, 2013 at Lordship Credit Union, Bellurgan, Co Louth.
Brady was convicted last month for his involvement in the theft of € 7,000 from the Credit Union on this date.
Speaking at a sentencing hearing for her husband’s killer, Caroline Donohoe said there are no words that can express the impact on her life, the lives of her children, and her family, colleagues and friends who loved Adrian.
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“We had a loving and happy family, but in just 58 meaningless seconds everything changed forever,” he told the Central Criminal Court today.
She visited the scene less than an hour after the shooting and identified her husband’s body.
“I will never fully recover from what I had to see,” he said, adding, “My heart breaks every time I pass by and sometimes I can’t get the images out of my mind for hours. Nothing and no one will replace Adrian in our house. “
Detective Garda Donohoe’s parents Hugh and Peggy, in a written statement read by their son Alan, said the murder was “a loss of a good man for such an evil and senseless act.”
They added: “We visit his grave every week, which is a comfort, but it is not a place for him. He should be here with us living his life. “
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