News - Wed 8 Mar 2000  


'THERE'S BEEN TOO MANY DEATHS'- SINEAD

   
Shane MacGowan 

Sinead O'Connor has lashed-out at Shane MacGowan, who has been cleared 
of heroin charges, after a close friend of hers was killed in a freak 
accident.

O'Connor reported MacGowan to police last year after seeing him take 
the drug, because she feared he would end up dead.

However, charges of possessing the drug against walking rock n' roll 
machine MacGowan were dropped yesterday and O'Connor has been left 
reeling after the death of Dublin journalist Jonathan Bowman.

Bowman died after apparently falling and cracking his head in his 
Ireland flat. O'Connor protested: 'It's never the people who deserve to 
die who do die, is it?

'In the light of what's happened, I couldn't care less what happened to 
Shane. There's been too many deaths.'