IRELAND
Wicklow People

PUBLISHED
07/03/2015

The supervisor of a garda accused of forging a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions has told her trial that the garda told him she didn’t have the necessary skills to forge a letter.

Detective Inspector Frank Keenaghan said that he showed her the letter and ‘told her to go away and think about it for an hour, but she was adamant and said “I couldn’t have forged it,” to which I said I wasn’t accusing her of forging anything.’

Wicklow Detective Garda Catherine McGowan (48), who is based at Bray Garda Station, has pleaded not guilty to one count of forgery on January 15, 2009, at Bray Garda Station and two counts of using a false instrument at Bray Garda Station and at Harcourt Street Garda Station between June 21 and 22, 2011.

The instrument is alleged to have been a…