Tougher laws ‘would have saved our sister’

The sister of murdered Sharon Coughlan has told how she believes her sibling would still be alive today if Ireland had tougher laws on foreign criminals entering the country.

Czech man David Brozovsky raped and murdered the 37-year-old mother-of-two near her home in Great Water St, Longford, in 2007, but it has since emerged that he had a string of criminal convictions before he came to Ireland.

The family told of their dismay yesterday at receiving at email from Justice Minister Alan Shatter on Wednesday telling them the repatriation was going ahead despite their pleas to keep him in an Irish jail.