Plan to deal with 120k outstanding Garda warrants

Gardaí are to bring in a new system to deal with the estimated 120,000 non-executed warrants for the arrest and imprisonment of suspects.

It follows the recent publication of a Garda Ombudsman report which revealed a woman had been killed by her son when he was supposed to have been in prison on a committal warrant.

The report detailed how a series of garda errors, and poor communication between gardaí, the courts and prison staff, resulted in a failure to execute a committal warrant for Celyn Eadon in February 2011. While free, the 19-year-old stabbed his mother Noreen Kelly-Eadon to death at her home in Castlebar, Co Mayo.