Gsoc denied access to confidential file

Gsoc has been denied access to confidential records in the Garda’s Security & Intelligence Section in relation to Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot Garda Tony Golden dead and almost killed his estranged partner Siobhan Phillips in October 2015.

Internal Garda reviews have found that two domestic abuse incidents prior to the event had not been properly classified by gardaí, and that a garda should have taken a statement from Ms Phillips, after she presented at Dundalk Station, having seen she had physical injuries.

But it said that the gardaí concerned had taken “significant actions” and that even had the incidents been classified more appropriately, it was “unlikely” Garda Golden would have taken a course of action other than bringing Ms Phillips to her Co Louth home to collect her personal belongings on 11 October.