Frank Mullen dies trying to clear his name

He was left with a conundrum: How do you disprove an allegation of historic sexual abuse, writes Michael Clifford

FRANK Mullen died last Sunday before he could clear his name. For more than the last 10 years of his life, he had been haunted by allegations of the terrible crimes. He had been accused of involvement in a paedophile ring, covering up the murder of a newborn baby, and even being responsible for killing a family of 13 in a work of arson.

Getting away with one of these crimes would be a travesty of justice. Cheating the law on all of them might require the guile of a criminal mastermind and the psyche of a monster. Would somebody like that then spend his last years on earth stressed beyond reason in chasing vindication, seeking some natural justice, as he saw it?