Suspect in fatal hit and run held at airport

The family of a cyclist killed in a hit-and-run have thanked the gardaí for tracking down the prime suspect, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London as he was about to board a flight to Australia.

More than 18 months after Paud O’Leary was killed while cycling on the Cork-Kerry border, it has been disclosed that Metropolitan Police officers arrested the 22-year-old suspect at Heathrow Airport last Tuesday.

Gardaí had asked them to detain the man, who is from north Cork, after receiving information that he had flown back to Britain from Western Australia, where he had gone shortly after the July 1, 2012, hit-and-run.