2020-10-28
On-the-run murderer who beat teen to death voluntarily surrenders
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; McCabe had been sentenced to life by the court for the murder but was sent back to his native Northern Ireland to serve out his sentence. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in October, 1990, for the murder of teenager Richard Hunt – a visiting cousin of McCabe's then-girlfriend – who was attacked with a scaffolding pole by a drunken McCabe at her London home.; Mr Justice Burns remanded McCabe in custody to be surrendered to authorities in the North in less than 10 days for breaches of his licence – caused by leaving the jurisdiction without notifying Northern authorities.