Innocent man says he was tortured into a confession by ‘The Heavy Gang’ and insists State covered it up
From left to right: Brian McNally, Nicky Kelly and Osgur Breatnach, who were convicted of the Sallins mail train robbery in 1976
A man wrongly convicted of a role in the 1976 Sallins train robbery has said the Government is not holding a public independent inquiry into the investigation because it would lift the lid on what he says was a state policy of using torture to secure false confessions from innocent people.
Osgur Breatnach said a group within the gardaí at the time, widely known as The Heavy Gang, beat and tortured a confession from him to silence a political group he was involved in, and a “policy of torture” had been covered up since.
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