Father of shooting victim says family got ‘no justice’

A FATHER whose only son was gunned down said yesterday the system has failed to give him justice.

John Butler was speaking after an inquest into the murder of his son, John junior, was unable to return a verdict of unlawful death.

The jury at Cork Coroner’s Court was directed to return a narrative verdict in relation to the death of the 20-year-old father-of-one from Knocknaheeny Avenue in Cork. Mr Butler was blasted in the chest at point-blank range by a masked gunman as he walked home with his partner, Rachel Thornhill, in the early hours of October 7, 2002.