Gardaí appeal for assault witnesses

SENIOR gardaí say they will review their investigation into a vicious gang assault on a young father if witnesses broke their silence and came forward.

Gardaí appeal for assault witnesses

Five members of a seven-strong gang that left Edward Fanning for dead outside his home in Mulhuddart, west Dublin, in October 2003, have not being prosecuted because people who saw the assault had not given information to investigating officers.

A second member of the gang was given seven years imprisonment on Thursday. Sentencing Christopher Gleeson, Judge Michael White said there were witnesses who knew the remaining five attackers, but who hadn’t assisted gardaí.

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