Parents’ fury over refusal to probe Lyons murder case

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has ruled out any further inquiries into the Dean Lyons case — the now dead addict who was controversially charged with a double murder in 1997.

The minister’s decision was greeted with dismay yesterday by the parents of the 27-year-old, who died in a Manchester prison in September 2000 from a heroin overdose.

John and Sheila Lyons have campaigned for years for a public inquiry into how their son was charged with the deaths of psychiatric patients Sylvia Shields and Mary Callinan in March 1997.