John Sweetman

The two of them were teachers.

But like I say, I wasn't at the scene, thanks be to God, I wasn't at the scene of that one.

But he had left letters, you know, notes and letters and stuff like that.

It was, yeah.

It was on the glass of the back door.

Please don't come in.

Please call the Gardaí.

And this was the wife's mother who had called to the house to see where they were.

And thanks be to God, she didn't go in.

She called the Gardaí.

She didn't go in because... That's been a cup of fuck.

Yeah, well, I did the examination on the letters.

Obviously, there wasn't going to be a criminal case because they were all dead, your man was dead and whatnot.

But there was a coroner's inquest and I had to give evidence of that to prove, yeah, he wrote them, you know.

But I'll never forget being at that inquest.

And like you say, some of the first witnesses were the two guards that were first at that scene.

And I was just like, how in the name of Jesus?

Just two local coppers.

You know, like, I mean... And it would have been a quiet town.

Quiet, like, I mean, you're probably going in most mornings and you might be dealing with, like, maybe you might have a road traffic tip down the road or something and do a checkpoint, did a public order, stuff like that, but then this type of stuff, like... And this would be whatever time it was, you know, nine or ten in the morning of a Monday morning, like, you know...