IRELAND
Irish Independent
06 OCTOBER 2013
A computer seized from a priest who was involved in a sex abuse case in 2007 is missing from garda custody.
Last month, an investigation cleared a garda whistleblower in respect to the computer’s loss.
He and his wife told the Sunday Independent last week that “the annoyance and distress caused to our family (by the investigation) has been enormous and has taken its toll”. They declined to comment further on the case.
The whistleblower was never a member of the investigating team that seized the computer and has claimed all along that he was not responsible for it.
He was referred to last week in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General who had met him and whose annual report underlines the whistleblower’s concerns about revenue loss due to issues with the penalty points system.
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