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Well, well, well.
That was a turn up for the books, wasn’t it now?
Susanna Tierney, nee Quinn, passed away after a tragic accident on one of the Tierney building sites. She was directing rubble to be cleared when the controls failed on one of the trucks being driven by her husband, flipping the bed, and burying her under the rubble.
Holy.
Shit.
By the time Mrs Tierney was rescued, she was unfortunately already dead. After an exhaustive investigation spanning two and a half years, Mr Tierney was declared innocent of any wrongdoing. The investigation showed faults within the truck that caused the freak accident. The Fox Point Post believes a substantial settlement was paid to Mr Tierney from the company who made the truck.
A Tierney Construction worker tells us, “Guy Quinn shouldn’t be involved in this. It’s sad what happened to his sister, but he’s convinced Declan had something to do with it. He doesn’t care about Fox Point; he just wants to hurt Declan.”
Someone close to the Quinn family told us that was nonsense. “Guy, along with the rest of his family, accepted the outcome of the investigation into Susanna’s death,” said the family friend, who requested to remain anonymous. “Guy is simply doing his job, and part of that job is to make sure the development is what’s best for Fox Point. He’s not the only one who doesn’t think another housing estate is right for the town.”
Indeed, in a poll on our website last week, we asked residents of Fox Point to have their say in what they thought was the best option for the site. Twelve percent agreed a housing estate was the right choice, fourteen percent opted for another holiday park, and a whopping seventy-four percent opted for ‘I don’t know,’ suggesting those who actually live here don’t want either of the options on the table.
And we can hardly blame them.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Woah.
That… was a lot.
No wonder Guy Quinn came to blows with Declan Tierney. Freak accidents happened, but that’s the kind of thing you never really got over. I had to agree with the person who thought it was wrong that Guy was on the committee if Declan was involved, though.
His sister dying twenty years ago didn’t matter.
He was never going to be able to look objectively at it.
All things considered; Guy had one hell of a motive to get rid of Declan Tierney.
I put the link to that article in a Word document so I didn’t lose it and moved to the next on my list.
Finding information on Michael Swann was a bit harder. A lot of what was online was about Swann Farm—PR bullshit about how wonderful it was, how it was a top ten attraction in Norfolk, all that kind of stuff.
No information actuallyonhim, though, which was a bummer. I guessed most of that would probably have to come through hearsay, but maybe my search criteria wasn’t quite tight enough. Betty had been the one to offer his name, and she’d said the police were called out to the farm, so surely there was a record of that.
I did a bit more snooping and found what I was looking for. Again, the Fox Point Post had reported on the incident.
How hard would it be to make friends with someone there? They seemed to know everything, and they were coming through for me today.
POLICE CALLED TO SWANN FARM; NO ARRESTS MADE
Aw, bummer.
Police were dramatically called to Swann Farm on Wednesday evening around 7.30pm. Michael Swann, owner, and Declan Tierney of Tierney Construction Ltd were held by police and released in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The Post understands that Mr Tierney recently purchased a small block of land adjacent to the Swann’s property and the two men have been involved in a dispute over the boundary.
Mrs Antonia Thomas, who passed away in 2019, sold the property to Mr Tierney in 2016 and stayed on as a tenant until her death. Mr Tierney argues that the boundary is wrong due to an adverse possession claim on the Swann’s land.
The field in question was rented by Mrs Thomas for a year in 2003 to exercise her granddaughter’s horse when Pinewood Stables closed down. Mrs Thomas’ property consisted of old farm buildings suitable to house the horse, but she no longer owned enough land to provide her granddaughter with the showjumping apparatus she needed, resulting in the Swann family coming to an arrangement with Mrs Thomas. The fence that previously separated their properties had been irreparably damaged in a storm a few months prior, according to someone who knows the families.
When Pinewood Stables reopened under new management three years later, the horse was returned to the stables as the Swanns had expressed interest in recovering the land for their own equestrian interest. However, they never rebuilt the fence along the boundary, and their own riding school was ultimately opened elsewhere on their farm.
Mrs Thomas continued to care for the land, keeping the hedges trimmed and the grass cut, including paying her gardener to do the maintenance when she was no longer physically able. Mr Tierney claims that care continued until three weeks before her death when she was admitted to hospital.
