Family of Irishman shot dead in Bolivia urge killing inquiry

The family of Irishman Michael Dwyer, who was shot dead in Bolivia in 2009 over an alleged assassination plot, say fresh evidence strengthens their calls for an independent international investigation into the killing.

Security worker Mr Dwyer, aged 24, from Ballinderry, Co Tipperary, was reported to have been gunned down in a police shoot-out after getting mixed up in a right-wing attempt to kill the country’s president Evo Morales.

However, his family said new eyewitness testimony before a court that Mr Dwyer had survived the bloody hotel raid at Santa Cruz in Apr 2009 and was later seen alive at the city’s international airport demanded a full inquiry.