Garda chiefs ‘ignored plea to probe malicious phone calls’

A DISGRACED former garda superintendent warned senior officers that extortionate phone calls made from a colleague’s home would haunt the force, it was claimed yesterday.

Kevin Lennon told the Morris Tribunal that top brass in the Donegal division failed to fully investigate malicious calls made from ex-garda John O’Dowd’s house in Letterkenny.

He also told the corruption inquiry he was aware it was a huge scandal that had to be probed.