Marian Leonard

People say cruel things in grief.

People get angry in grief.

That's all very acceptable.

But he was teasing young girls.

He came back to the pub in Blessington, to his pub, and continued with the birthday party for his mother, who was 60 that day.

On the 8th of September, on the day of the funeral.

Yeah.

Now, a birthday party that Joan must have cringed at.

You know.

And the friends, his friends and Esther's friends were invited back up and some of them actually came up.

But just, I think in shock are supporting him, wondering what, you know, this is grief talking.

The guards did start looking very quickly, very seriously because they went back over the attempts he'd made to cover everything.

You know, he had had arranged, made phone calls threatening himself.

There'd been something written on the pub.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the idea that this would happen and he wouldn't tell his wife, why wouldn't that happen?

So there was a lot of building up that the guards very quickly were able to get through.

And I think once that young girl's mother told them about the adoption, I think that brought them down a different road.

Yeah.