Loss of evidence in garda’s murder probe ‘wholly unacceptable’

A senior investigator for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) has described the loss of evidence collected during the investigation into the murder of Garda Dick Fallon as “wholly unacceptable”.

Three men subsequently stood trial for the murder, but all were acquitted.

Finian Fallon, who was just four when his father was murdered, is appealing for a public inquiry into his father’s murder. Both he and his brother Richard requested Gsoc to investigate concerns that vital evidence in the case had gone missing.