R v Maguire (Louis) & Power (Christopher) - Ruling (Prison confession)
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Deeny J |
| Judgment Date | 22 September 2016 |
| Neutral Citation | [2016] NICC 17 |
| Court | Crown Court (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 22 September 2016 |
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Neutral Citation No: [2016] NICC 17
Ref:
DEE10116
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down
Delivered:
22/9/2016
(subject to editorial corrections)
THE CROWN COURT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
SITTING IN BELFAST
________
REGINA
-v-
LOUIS MAGUIRE & CHRIST OPHER POWER
________
RULING (Prison confession)
DEENY J
[1] In this matter the Crown have served , by way of additional evidence, a
statement o f GB o f 19 September 2016. This gentleman is a serving Prison
Officer and at one point he was responsible in HMP Maghaberry for the first
Defendant in this trial, Louis Maguire. He was moving him within the prison to
a new landing and Maguire had with him some documents, implicitly referring
to his case, and an A4 size book, a s the Prison Officer d escribes it in his
statement, which was ring bound and which sounds, from his description, as
though it was the main book of photographs in this case. That book of
photographs included, of course, several photographs of the deceased on the sofa
in Louis Maguire's house. The kernel of what the Crown wish t o adduce in
evidence is that a s the Prison Officer was bringing Maguire on t o the landing,
Maguire was a few metres ahead o f him and spoke to a prisoner called RC
through the key hole of his cell and as the Prison Officer got closer , perhaps just
a metre away, held up the book against the spy glass of the cell and said
something to the effect that he Maguire had 'stiffed ' someone. These matters
obviously not to be reported during the duration o f this trial but, to quote the
Prison Officer’s statement:
“H e definitely used the words, ‘I’, ‘stiffed’ and
‘guy’ . While saying this Mr Maguire Junior –“
that is the Defendant,
“was pointing to a picture in the book and I can
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