Family of wrongly accused man call for public inquiry

THE family of a deceased young man wrongly accused of a double murder yesterday joined calls for a public inquiry into the garda investigation of the case.

The request follows a call from the sister of Sylvia Shields, who, along with Mary Callinan, was brutally murdered almost seven years ago in Grangegorman, Dublin.

Stella Nolan said this week that if Justice Minister Michael McDowell refused to set up a public inquiry into the unsolved murders she would take a legal case to force one to be established.