The former GSOC officer at the centre of a Garda probe into his attendance at a party for Gerry Hutch is believed to have left Ireland.
Sources told The Star the senior investigator, who immediately retired from GSOC when the party allegations emerged, is believed to have flown abroad. It’s understood the man, who has been cooperating with the probe, returned to a jurisdiction where he served as a cop for over 30 years before coming to Ireland to take up the GSOC role.
The National Bureau of Criminal Investigation are probing whether the investigator, who has since admitted attending a ‘welcome home’ party for Hutch on the day of his acquittal of the murder of David Byrne, was illegally leaking information. After we exclusively broke the story that the officer attended the party in north Dublin in April, GSOC launched an internal investigation, then called on gardai to launch their own probe.
