Joan Cook

Joan Cook.

Did you know her?

What's she like?

I found her all right.

She didn't deserve that.

No one deserves her.

I think she did leave him.

But as I said, I got on all right with her.

The woman told the Gardaí that Cook knew Philip Kearns and had promised to take him to visit the radio station.

She said, however, that when they got to the studios in Inchicore, a row broke out while she was in another room and that Eamon Cook struck the child with an implement.

She said she went into the room and saw the 13-year-old boy bleeding and unconscious on the floor.

She told the Gardaí she then fainted and when she woke up she was in a car being driven by Eamon Cook.

She kept this information to herself for almost 30 years.