‘Woman would be alive if gardaí had handled my case properly’

A woman attacked by a man who went on to murder Sylvia Roche Kelly in Limerick in December 2007 has claimed the 33-year-old would still be alive if her own case had been handled properly by gardaí.

Taxi driver Mary Lynch said she narrowly escaped being raped or killed, or both, when Jerry McGrath brutally assaulted her after she dropped him off at a house near Virginia, Co Cavan, on April 30, 2007.

“When he assaulted me and got out of the car and ran, by the time he got to the driver’s door his flies were open. He was trying to get my head bent to that part of his body,” she said.