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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
David Raleigh

Mother of boxer Kevin Sheehy seeks face-to-face meeting with Minister over prison transfer of son’s killer

The mother of murdered Irish champion boxer, Kevin Sheehy, said today she will seek a face-to-face meeting with Minster for Justice Simon Harris as soon as possible, to ask him to reconsider his decision granting her son’s killer a transfer to a UK jail.

Minister Harris said yesterday that he was obligated under international human rights law to accede to killer Logan Jackson’s transfer application.

However, Mr Sheehy’s mother, Tracey Tully claimed her human rights have been “breached” and “ignored” by the State for granting Jackson’s transfer request, which he made after just eight weeks into his life sentence.

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