Flawed drug strategy costs lives

THIS week a decomposing body was discovered in a derelict house in Co Kildare. It was that of a young woman who had been missing for a fortnight.

Lynette McKeown’s life made for dismal reading. She was an occasional prostitute. She was a recovering heroin user who may have relapsed. The last time she was seen alive was in the red light area around Arbour Hill.

Her family denied that. They said they had once lived in a B&B there. That, in itself, told its own story about the horizons of her life.