Victims’ support group demands accountability following O'Higgins report

Families of homicide victims have demanded “accountability” following the publication of the O’Higgins report and, furthermore, heavily criticised the media’s concentration on the political fallout.

Advocates for Victims of Homicide called for immediate reform of the bail laws to ensure violent predators such as Jerry McGrath are kept in custody when charged.

McGrath murdered mother Sylvia Roche Kelly in December 2007 while out on bail for a “savage assault” on Mary Lynch in Cavan and, separately, a thwarted abduction of a child in Tipperary.