Ireland's longest serving prisoner in fresh bid for temporary release
The State’s longest serving prisoner is seeking extra time to appeal his unsuccessful High Court bid for two days temporary release per year. English national John Shaw (73) has been in custody in Ireland since September 1976 when both he and another English man, Geoffrey Evans, were arrested for th
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The Court of Appeal heard a procedural application on Friday concerning John Shaw, aged 73, who has been in custody since 1976. Shaw and another man were convicted of two murders committed in Wicklow and Mayo that year and received life sentences in February 1978. Following a Parole Board recommendation in 2016 that Shaw be granted two days of escorted outings annually, the Minister for Justice declined to support…
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