He killed Shane O'Farrell. Why was he out on bail?
Shane O’Farrell was 23 when he was the victim of a hit-and-run near his home in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. A law graduate, he had just submitted his master’s thesis and was enjoying a carefree cycle on that August evening in 2011.
Questions around how the crash happened soon turned to who was behind the wheel. It was Lithuanian Zigimantas Gridziuska, a man known to the Garda and the courts.
On the day he killed Shane and drove off, he had more than 40 convictions, including some in Northern Ireland.
So how was he free to go out and kill? He had breached his bail conditions many times so why…
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