Inquiry call after DPP lost file in sex case

THERE have been growing calls for an inquiry into the overturning of a Galway man’s wrongful conviction for sexual assault after the Department of Public Prosecution said it had lost a file on the case.

Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern is studying a Garda file on the case of Michael Feichin Hannon after it was passed on to him by Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy.

Last week Mr Hannon’s initial conviction for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl was declared a miscarriage of justice.