Sir, – I note with favour Caitriona Lawlor's letter (May 13th) in favour of Alan Shatter, who as minister for justice courageously ordered a review of the tragic case of Harry Gleeson, who was hanged in 1941 for the murder of his neighbour, Mary McCarthy.
My late father was a business partner of Gleeson’s and he attended the trial as a character witness for Harry, an experience from which he never fully recovered. – Yours, etc,
BERNADETTE GORMAN,
Castlewood Park,
Dublin 6.
Sir, – Catriona Lawlor rightly gives credit to former minister for justice Alan Shatter for accepting the case for a review of the conviction of Harry Gleeson for the murder of Mary McCarthy in 1940. I am putting the finishing touches to a book which will show Gleeson’s innocence.
May I appeal to Irish Times readers who may have old photographs of the people involved to contact me as these are proving hard to find. I should also like to know about any old documents people may have in case they shed further light on this distressing case in which an innocent man was sent to the gallows in 1941.
I can be contacted by email at fagan.kieran@gmail.com or by post at the address below. – Yours, etc,
KIERAN FAGAN,
31 Seafield Court,
Killiney,
Co Dublin.