Parents’ fury over refusal to probe Lyons murder case
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.
