January 2009 is when I first made contact with the Garda Cold Case unit. After the initial contact things seemed to be going nowhere until I mentioned that I had met with the GSOC. Things started to happen then and after a few short meeting with two Detectives they suggested that I should write to the Garda Commissioner. We are now five years on the the family have had no answers. There seems to a very cross party reluctance to bring the case to a proper conclusion.
Garda Inquiries finished in March 2013 yet it took Alan Shatted almost a year to appoint an Sc to look at the Garda report. We have heard no more and we are very unhappy with the terms of reference.
From day one we have always asked for an investigation into how the case was handled in 1985 -1988. This has not been done and has been left outside the terms of reference given to Dominic McGinn. This is not acceptable and we will not rest until Garda behaviour ( and others ) is examined in detail.
