Garda: I was singled out in Baiba Saulite case

A garda told the High Court how he was devastated when he was blamed for allegedly having information that indicated a risk to the life of Latvian woman Baiba Saulite who was later murdered.

Garda Declan Nyhan, who was later cleared in a disciplinary investigation, said he was singled out and the blame was put on him.

Baiba Saulite, a Latvian mother of two, was shot by a lone man as she stood in the hallway of her home at Holywell Square, Feltrim Road, Swords, on Nov 19, 2006. Her sons, aged three and five who were asleep upstairs, had been the subject of abduction proceedings against her husband, who at the time was awaiting sentence.