Probe into Grangegorman murders
An independent inquiry is to be launched into how innocent drug addict Dean Lyons confessed to the brutal double murder of two women in their Dublin home, it emerged today.
The homeless heroin user told gardaí he killed Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callinan in a frenzied knife attack in their house in the grounds of St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital, Grangegorman.
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