Gardaí to get training for suspects on methadone

MEMBERS of the force look set to be trained on how to monitor and best detain suspects on methadone after proposals made at an inquest into the death of a suspected killer in garda custody.

The inquest into the death of Dwayne Foster concluded yesterday he had died of methadone intoxication after telling a prescribing doctor he was on a methadone programme when he was not.

Mr Foster was found unresponsive in Coolock Garda Station, Dublin, on March 7, 2006. He was being held for questioning about the fatal shooting two days earlier of young mother-of-one Donna Cleary.