Superintendent stopped exhumation ‘on orders from superior’

DISGRACED former Garda Superintendent Kevin Lennon told a tribunal into garda corruption yesterday he had stopped the exhumation of the body of cattle dealer Richie Barron at the request of his superior.

Kevin Lennon said he had been rushed into halting the exhumation of Mr Barron by the chief superintendent in Donegal, Denis Fitzpatrick. “From there on, my hands were tied in the investigation in the death of Richie Barron,” he said.

At the Morris Tribunal, Mr Lennon told Superintendent Joseph Shelley, who was in the witness box for the 12th day, that the request was made in 1997 when he was in the car with them on the way back from Sligo.