MAN DENIES CAUSING DEATH OF NUIG STUDENT JOURNALIST

Date Published: 16-Dec-2009

A man accused of causing the death of 24-year-old NUIG student journalist Donna Ferguson has denied that he asked one of his passengers to change his evidence.

Donna Ferguson was killed instantly in an early morning road traffic accident at the Boa Island Road, just outside Kesh, in December 2006.

57 year-old Edward Cassidy, known as Eamonn, of Mullaghmore Drive, Omagh has been charged with causing the young reporter's death, causing grievous bodily harm to two of his passengers, Kevin Myers and Frankisek Takacz and attempting to pervert the course of justice.