Gardaí probe how killer got rifle

Gardaí are investigating how Robert Hartery accessed a legally-held weapon which he used to murder his former partner Sarah Regan.

It emerged yesterday the 30-year-old mum-of-two was sitting in her car dressed in her pyjamas when Mr Hartery pointed a hunting rifle in at her and shot her twice in the head.

Mr Hartery, aged 45, shot himself dead after the murder, which took place in the small Roscommon village of Cloonfad on Friday night.