Family of murdered teenager upset by solicitor’s remarks

THE family of a murdered Kerry teenager have said they are “very upset” by remarks made by a solicitor representing one of the main suspects in the case who died last week.

Family of murdered teenager  upset by solicitor’s remarks

The family of Stephen Lyne, 17, who died after a fatal knife attack close to his home at Ross Road, Killarney, in June 2009, said the remarks were inappropriate in the extreme.

Killarney solicitor Padraig O’Connell, who represented a suspect, Shane Regan, 18, spoke at the teenager’s funeral Mass in Fossa church, outside Killarney, on Sunday, and asked that his good name be preserved.

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