Senior garda who died by suicide was 'under pressure' over Regency Hotel shooting, inquest hears

Detective Superintendent Colm Fox died during a trial in relation to a high-profile murder at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin, on February 5, 2016. Picture: Collins

A senior-ranking detective who took his own life in a Garda station over six years ago was under intense pressure over his role as lead investigator into a murder which sparked the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud, his family have told an inquest.

Detective Superintendent Colm Fox was found dead in his office at Ballymun Garda Station on the evening of February 10, 2018, with a number of notes left for family members and his official firearm.