Gardaí say victim of Traveller feud was ‘a gentleman’

GARDAÍ described the victim of a fatal stabbing in Tipperary town on Friday night as “a gentleman” and have appealed for the public’s help.

Father-of-four Willie Stokes, 47, was stabbed by two men who set upon him while he was sitting in his van with his 12-year-old son at about 6pm on Friday.

His family says he is aninnocent man caught up in an increasingly vicious Traveller feud.