No police file on man who faked death

THE home town police of a British man accused of defrauding pension payments and faking his own death yesterday said they had yet to receive an official complaint on the case.

Dorset Police said despite numerous media queries it had no active files on Walter Dominy — the 71-year-old man reported to have faked his own suicide to dodge mounting debts.

Having abandoned a failed business venture in Kilkenny, Mr Dominy left a suicide note in his car while travelling on the Rosslare to Fishguard ferry in 1993. Until this week he was considered missing, presumed drowned, having left behind a wife and family of four.

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