Call for gardaí to be punished for Lyons affair

SENIOR gardaí criticised in a Government report into the Dean Lyons affair should be punished appropriately, a TD said last night.

Justice minister Michael McDowell received the final report from the Commission of Investigation which he said he intends to publish early next month.

Homeless heroin addict Lyons was charged in 1997 with the brutal murder of psychiatric patients Sylvia Sheils, 59 and Mary Callinan, 61 at St Brendan’s Hospital in Grangegorman, Dublin.