A 25-year-old man was mur­dered near his Mal­oney Gar­dens home short­ly af­ter vis­it­ing the com­mu­ni­ty’s po­lice sta­tion on Fri­day evening.

Po­lice said around 6.50 pm, Ja­mal Shep­pard, of Gull Ter­race, Mal­oney Gar­dens, D’Abadie, was walk­ing home af­ter vis­it­ing the sta­tion to re­port as part of his bail con­di­tions.

Shep­pard re­port­ed­ly stopped to speak briefly to a fe­male friend he met on the road and told her that he be­lieved that he was be­ing fol­lowed by a ve­hi­cle af­ter leav­ing the sta­tion.