Policing watchdog to review Mitchelstown killings over possible phone call

GSOC has confirmed it is investigating if prior contact was made to local gardaí before the tragedy unfolded last week.

Flowers on a bridge near where Johnny Hennessy's body was recovered from the Funshion River, Mitchelstown, Co Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The policing watchdog has confirmed it is investigating whether one of three brothers found dead in a suspected murder-suicide in north Cork on Friday had contacted gardaí prior to the tragedy unfolding.

It comes as autopsies on the bodies of Paddy Hennessy, 60, Willie Hennessy, 66, and Johnny Hennessy, 59, were concluded on yesterday, with gardaí keeping the results private for operational reasons as they try to unravel what happened at the family farm near Mitchelstown.