Mick Clifford: After Kerry babies, Gerry O'Carroll should have retreated in shame

Instead, he continued to beat a hollow drum, claiming that far from acting the thug and misusing his power, he, and not Joanne Hayes, was the real victim

Gerry O'Carroll leaving the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, in 1998. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Gerry O’Carroll, who died last week, will be remembered primarily for two of the many murder cases that he investigated.

One involved Shaw and Evans, a pair of Englishmen who were responsible for the notorious killings of young women.