A heartbroken family is winning a battle to keep a monster killer behind bars on the 20th anniversary of their daughter’s brutal murder.
Beautiful Nichola Sweeney was stabbed 11 times in a frenzied attack by evil Peter Whelan, 37, after voices in his head “told him to kill someone.” She was 20 years old.
Her best friend Sinead O'Leary was also stabbed 20 times by him, but miraculously survived the random attack at the Sweeney family home in Rochestown, Co Cork, on April 27, 2002.
