Grangegorman killings

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Grangegorman killings were the killings on 6 March 1997 of Sylvia Shields and Mary Callinan, patients of St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland. After giving a false confession, Dean Lyons was charged with the murders and placed on remand. Subsequent to Lyons being charged, Mark Nash confessed to the killings, and later retracted his confession; he is due to be tried in 2011. In his statement to the Garda Síochána (Irish police force), Lyons gave details that would only be known to the murderer or to the investigators. Lyons was described by one of the gardaí involved in the case as a "Walter Mitty" character, and Dr Charles Smith, psychiatrist and director of the Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, felt that he might be prone to exaggeration and attention-seeking. A commission of investigation was set up to investigate the conduct of the gardaí in the case. Dean Lyons died from a heroin overdose in 2000. He spent over eight months in jail for a crime that he did not commit.