Wren rejects Report’s link to Ludlow case

A FORMER Garda Commissioner has rejected allegations he was involved in blocking the pursuit of the suspected killers of Seamus Ludlow.

Laurence Wren, deputy commissioner when the names of four suspects linked to the Ulster Defence Association were passed to the gardaí by the RUC, most probably made the decision not to follow up on the information, Mr Justice Henry Barron said.

“It’s just surmising, there’s no positive charge against me in any shape or form. I do not accept it at all,” said Mr Wren, Garda Commissioner from 1983 to 1987.