Family accuses gardaí after man's suicide

A man who hanged himself had been subjected to garda harassment in the weeks before his death, his family claimed today.

Matthew Fagan, the father of Declan Fagan (aged 28) from Summerhill in Dublin 1, told the Dublin City Coroner’s Court that in the weeks prior to his son’s death on May 29, 2004 his personality had changed.