Shotgun confiscated after complaint from employer’s wife

JOHN CARTHY’S shotgun was taken from him following a complaint by the wife of a local builder with whom he had a falling out.

Garda Peter Earley of Granard station told the tribunal he was approached in the summer of 1998 by Evelyn McLoughlin who told him about the row with her husband, Brendan, for whom Mr Carthy had been working, and expressed concerns about Mr Carthy having a gun.

He accepted Mr Carthy later went back to work for Mr McLoughlin as recently as days before his death.