Suicide father murdered daughter he abducted
A man who shot his young daughter then turned his gun on himself as gardai arrived at their rented cottage in Co Tipperary had been on the run with the child for two years after abducting her, it emerged today.
Chris Crowley, 44, and his six-year-old daughter Deirdre, from Fermoy, Co Cork, had not been seen since he took her from her mother’s home in December 1999.