Double killer Gallagher challenges prosecution

A judge has deferred ruling on whether a prosecution brought against double killer John Gallagher for absconding from custody should be struck out.

Double killer Gallagher challenges prosecution

A judge has deferred ruling on whether a prosecution brought against double killer John Gallagher for absconding from custody should be struck out.

Gallagher (aged 46), who killed mother and daughter Annie and Anne Gillespie in the grounds of Sligo Hospital in 1988, was released from the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) in Dundrum in Dublin on June 29 last, six weeks after giving himself up.

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