James MacGuill, solicitor for Ms Nic Gibb, said their case was gardaí could have stopped the attempted robbery beforehand and arrested Mr MacLochlainn but instead “went for the spectacular”. After Ms Nic Gibb brought proceedings in the European Court of Justice following an inquest in 2010, the Commission was set up in 2014. On May 16, 2016, Ms Nic Gibb applied to the court. While not urging a finding of unlawful killing, as she accepted there was a dearth of evidence preventing such a finding, Ms Nic Gibb argued the same dearth of evidence prevented a finding of lawful killing. There was no procedural frailty requiring the court to direct the Commission to amend its final report or take further evidence, she concluded.

Source: Evening echo February 16, 2018 14:26 UTC