Lyons could not have described knife blades more accurately, admits garda

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has told a jury how a man who was first charged with the 1997 murder of one woman, but later had the charge withdrawn, could not have "more accurately described" the carving knife blades found at the scene.

Dean Lyons, now deceased was the first person who made an independent admission to the murder of Sylvia Shields (60) and Mary Callanan (61) between March 6 and March 7, 1997 and he was charged with the murder of Mary Callanan in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman on July 27

1997