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Hundreds of gardaí turn out to form guard of honour at Superintendent Colm Fox's funeral
Superintendent Fox was found dead on Saturday evening in his office at Ballymun Garda Station.
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MEMBERS OF AN Garda Síochána have paid a final tribute to one of the country’s top criminal investigators, who was tragically found dead at a Dublin garda station last weekend, through a guard of honour.
Superintendent Colm Fox was found dead on Saturday evening in his office at Ballymun Garda Station.
He was a lead investigating detective into the Regency Hotel investigation.
Gardaí have since launched an investigation into his death, which is being treated as a personal tragedy.
Members of An Garda Síochána turned out in their hundreds this afternoon at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Malahide to honour Superintendent Fox.
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Speaking at the beginning of a trial at Dublin Circuit Court on Monday, Paul O’Higgins SC, prosecuting, paid tribute to Superintendent Fox and said that he knew him since his first days as a garda.
He described the senior garda as a most decent man, both professionally and in his dealings with people.
Brendan Grehan SC, defending, said the deceased was a top cop, a pleasure to deal with and someone who “always got the best out of the team around him”.
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Judge Karen O’Connor agreed that it was a very sad death and said her thoughts were with Superintendent Fox’s family.
“There are very few at the Bar who won’t have encountered him. I know him from my own experience that any team Superintendent Fox was involved in always spoke very highly of him,” she said.
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