Lawlor family outraged as crash woman identified as an interpreter

THE family of Liam Lawlor yesterday hit out at media coverage of the former politician’s death, saying they were saddened by unsubstantiated claims he had picked up a prostitute before his fatal car crash.

In a strongly worded statement, they described the extensive coverage in some Sunday newspapers as “a barrage of inaccurate, reckless and vindictive” reporting.

And very reliable diplomatic sources in Moscow yesterday emphatically discredited the allegations - carried by at least three newspapers yesterday - that the young woman was a prostitute or that the area in which the fatal crash occurred was a red light district of the Russian capital.