Mr Ryan went missing on June 3rd, 2011 after leaving his girlfriend Mary Lowry’s home at about 6.30am. His body was found in an underground run-off tank on the farm owned by Ms Lowry and leased by the accused at Fawnagown, Tipperary 22 months later in April 2013.
Item 33 on this chart referred initially to a bag containing cable ties and pipe covers recovered from the tank and handed to the exhibits officer by Garda Larry Stapleton. He said he did not write on the bag what was contained within it as this was not his practice and there was no space on the bag for that purpose. The witness also said that photos were taken of everything that was taken from the tank, including the hair clip.
Mr Staines further put it to the witness that he did not make a statement about this until five-and-a-half years after the fact and questioned how he could be so sure of what he told Det Garda Keane.Garda Stapleton said he would have told his colleage about the hair clip because that is what is in his notes from the time. “I know from the way I wrote it that’s what I told to Garda Keane.”
Mr Staines told Det Garda Keane there is no suggestion that he acted improperly in carrying out his duty and the garda accepted this.
The gardai are very possibly the most incompetent branch of the public sector and that is a truly momentous achievement considering the gross idiocy in the public sector
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