Call for inquiry into GSOC probe

Middle-ranking gardaí have called on the Taoiseach to set up a judicial inquiry into how the Garda Ombudsman conducted an investigation into a sergeant who took his own life last week.

Sergeant Michael Galvin, a married father-of-three, died by suicide last Thursday, a week after he was questioned under caution by GSOC investigators on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and making a false and misleading statement.

This was in relation to his dealings with Sheena Stewart, 33, who was fatally injured in a road crash in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2014.