‘Government is passing the buck on my son’s confession’

THE mother of a drug addict who was wrongly charged with a double murder in 1997 yesterday said the Government was passing the buck by hiring a lawyer to investigate the case.

Sheila Lyons reiterated her calls for a public inquiry into how her son, Dean, made a false confession to the killings of elderly psychiatric patients Sylvia Shields and Mary Callinan in Grangegorman hospital in Dublin.

Justice Minster Michael McDowell announced on Tuesday he was appointing an independent lawyer to examine the garda files on the investigation, and would report back to the Dáil on the findings.