New garda team leads murder probe

A NEW garda team, supported by specialist officers, has made progress in the troubled Grangegorman murder investigation, gardaí said yesterday.

The investigation team was appointed to break the deadlock in the double murders of Sylvia Shields and Mary Callinan.

The women were stabbed to death in their sheltered accommodation at St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman, north Dublin, in March 1997.