‘Our sitting room is a shrine to our son’

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

Anthony and Geraldine Leamy were in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday for the trial of Liam Keane, who was accused of murdering their son. The case collapsed after six prosecution witnesses denied making statements identifying the accused as the killer of Eric Leamy.

The Leamys did not want to talk of the case, but of their son who has been forgotten by so many.