Hardcases

The workings of the Irish Judicial system are looked at in this book. The protagonists and the victims of the eleven cases featured come from every walk of life. The crimes range from petty larceny to murder in the first degree. But they have all made legal history. There is the case of Karl Crawley, the small-time crook who has been declared insane by the state a dozen times. There is Peter Matthews, whose death in custody was the subject of a police cover-up; Sharon Malloy, who lived in fear of her unstable father until the time of his brutal murder; and the married couple in whose bedroom Father Niall Malloy was found beaten to death.