Mark Hennessy was fatally shot by an armed garda once in the upper body while sitting in his car, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) has said. Some of the recordings being reviewed were recorded by an automatic number plate recognition camera in a Garda car at the scene, it added. A Stanley knife was found in Hennessy’s car and he had suffered wounds consistent with self harm. He had abducted Ms Valdez from a roadside just outside Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, at about 6pm on Saturday. However, after shooting Hennessy in the vehicle the gardaí discovered there was no sign of Ms Valdez, an accountancy student from the Philippines.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2018 19:07 UTC