Gardaí baffled at British failure to progress Oliver murder probe

Former chief constable Jon Boutcher, left, with Tom Oliver's son Eugene at the family farm on the Cooley peninsula, Co Louth, in 2021, when he said new evidence had been uncovered. Picture: Arthur Carron/PA

Gardaí who reinvestigated the murder of Tom Oliver and handed their file over to British police in 2018 are 'baffled' at the lack of progress in the case. 

The gardaí involved believed they had assembled a strong case that would have led to arrests north and south of the border if they had access to the forensic and ballistic evidence from the scene where Mr Oliver’s body was found in Co Armagh.