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The Case of Peter Pringle
📻 Episode #324
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 12, 2023
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on February 20, 2017.
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The Case
This is an updated episode that originally aired on February 20, 2017.
On July 7th, 1980, three masked robbers robbed the Bank of Ireland at Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. They attempted to flee, but crashed into a police car. A shootout ensued and 2 policemen were killed. Two men were arrested the same day. A third, Peter Pingle was arrested 12 days later. During questioning by detectives, Mr. Pringle allegedly admitted to involvement in the crimes. He was convicted and sentenced to death mainly on the basis of this alleged confession even though it was later discovered that the confession used by the prosecution was written down in a police officer’s notebook prior to his questioning about the killings.
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:08:05“Speaker 4: That was my job, And as luck would have it, Speaker 4: I took the day off work the day that the Speaker 4: robbery happened. I went on a binge and they used Speaker 4: that against me as I had taken the day off Speaker 4: work to go and commit the robbery, which hadn't happened.”
00:29:55“Speaker 4: If I'm going to be executed in three weeks time, Speaker 4: I can't save the fifteen years. And if I'm going Speaker 4: to say out the fifteen years, I can't be executed Speaker 4: three weeks time. But that was the way my head Speaker 4: was around the whole time. And then I was taken”
00:50:10“Speaker 4: in the Mercedes. We traveled in style. And as we Speaker 4: were on the car fairly crossing the river, Shannon eating Speaker 4: a pack lunch which he'd made up for us, she Speaker 4: said to me, what's your interest in all of this? Speaker 4: And I told her that I too had been wrongly”
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