Gardaí had “agenda” to obtain confession from murder convict “no matter what”, appeal court told

Bryan Ryan, aged 31 and originally from Blanchardstown with a connection to Louisburgh, County Mayo, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Ian Tobin in May 2007. Following an initial conviction in 2008 that was later quashed, Ryan was reconvicted by majority verdict at the Central Criminal Court in 2013 after pleading not guilty to the charge. At a hearing before the Court of Appeal in December 2015, Ryan's…