Lawlor translator attacks ‘reckless’ media coverage

THE Ukrainian woman who accompanied Liam Lawlor on his fatal trip to Moscow broke her silence yesterday to castigate the media coverage as “reckless, vengeful and ill corroborated”.

Julia Kushnir, 29, a translator and trainee lawyer, said that since her return home to Prague after the crash, she has been under "the most rigorous, painful and searching scrutiny".

The single mother of one said it was "very difficult" to bear the burden of the being the sole survivor of the incident in which Mr Lawlor and businessman Ruslan Suliamanov died.