Garda killer Stephen Silver is to appeal his conviction, we can reveal.
He has told prison officers he was deranged and out of his mind when he took Detective Garda Colm Horkan’s gun and shot him 11 times in June 2020.
Silver claims he can remember little or nothing about the incident in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, and cannot understand why the jury didn’t believe him. The 46-year-old former motorbike mechanic is due to be sentenced to the mandatory 40 years for capital murder next Wednesday following the conviction over a month ago.
