KINAHAN KILLER LOSES APPEAL

A BRITISH gunman who carried out the Kinahan cartel murder of dissident republican Michael Barr in a pub a decade ago has lost a bid to overturn his conviction.

- BY RYAN DUNNE

The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled the trial court was correct to dismiss the evidence of a witness concerning the height of one of the shooters.

In dismissing the appeal by David Hunter, 47, Mr Justice John Edwards said yesterday that the assessment of eye-witness evidence by the Special Criminal Court was both “cogent and rigorous”.

He said the court had expressed its concerns about the reliability of one witness, who said the gunman was over six feet tall, while Hunter was only five feet ten.

Liverpool native Hunter, with an address at Du Cane Road, White City, London, had denied the murder of Barr, 35, at the Sunset House pub in Dublin's north inner city on the night of April 25, 2016.