Mum of murdered Limerick boxer hopes all responsible face justice as gardai make arrest
Gardai arrested a woman in her 30s today
The mother of murdered innocent Irish boxing champion Kevin Sheehy said today, Monday, she hopes that whoever was involved in her son’s killing will be brought to justice, as gardai made an arrest in the case.
Gardai arrested a woman in her 30s today, in connection with Mr Sheehy’s killing five years ago. One man was convicted of the murder in December 2021, however Gardai suspect others were involved in aiding and abetting the killer.
A female was arrested this morning in relation to the murder that shocked the sporting Treaty City and the boxing world.
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“Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a woman as part of ongoing investigations related to the murder of Kevin Sheehy in County Limerick in July 2019,” stated a garda spokeswoman.
“The woman, aged in her 30s, was arrested this morning, 2nd September 2024, in connection with the investigation. She is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in the Southern Region.” The garda spokeswoman said “investigations are continuing” into Mr Sheehy’s killing.
The 20-year old Limerick orthodox boxer, who had been tipped to represent Ireland at last month’s Olympic Games in Paris, was mowed down by UK criminal Logan Jackson, who repeatedly drove a 4x4 jeep at the five-time national boxing champ, on July 1, 2019. Jackson, 30s, of Longford Road, Coventry, was found guilty of Mr Sheehy’s murder, by a jury’s unanimous decision, at the Centra Criminal Court in December 2021.
“Today, Kevin’s mother, Tracey Tully, said: “I hope that whoever was involved in my son’s murder will be brought to justice. Kevin’s murder has been life-changing for me and my family, the evidence that I heard during Logan Jackson’s trial was overwhelming and it has been mentally torturing for me living with this.”
“I just want justice for my son, and hopefully then I can properly grieve for him, I haven’t been able to grieve fully for Kevin,” added Ms Tully.
Last July, Ms Tully called on Gardaí to renew efforts to arrest and question three persons suspected of involvement in her son’s killing. Ms Tully said she would not rest until any and all persons allegedly involved in her son’s death were jailed. Logan Jackson, was sentenced to 22 years in a jail in his native England last July.
Jackson was initially sentenced to life at Limerick Prison in December 2021, but he was later transferred to his native UK, despite after Ms Tully took a legal case against the Minister for Justice in an effort to keep Jackson in jail on Irish soil. Ms Tully had argued that Jackson should serve his sentence in the country where he took her son’s life.
Ms Tully said she was “over the moon” that Jackson must now, by order of the Sheriff’s Court in his native Coventry, serve at least 19 years and 192 days in prison before he can even apply for parole.
“He would have got around 17 years here in Ireland. Even though it will never bring my son back, I am happy knowing I will never have to hear about him for a long time,” Ms Tully said last July. “I had been living in constant fear of getting a phone call to say that he (Jackson) had got a lesser sentence (in the UK). That would have killed me.”
Jackson repeatedly drove over Kevin Sheehy in a vicious and unprovoked attack after the boxer was walking home from celebrating Limerick’s Munster Hurling Final win over Tipperary.
Jackson’s trial heard that Mr Sheehy, who had no links to crime and was regarded in his local community as a sporting hero, had tried to get up off the ground after being first struck by Jackson’s UK-registered Mitsubishi Shogun jeep but that he was run over two more times by Jackson. Jackson used the vehicle as a murder weapon, it was heard.
Jackson told Gardai a “tapestry of lies” about how he had felt under threat while he was attending at a house party earlier on the night, said Dean Kelly, prosecuting counsel. Ms Tully said she and her family, including Kevin’s partner who was pregnant with their first daughter at the time he died, have been left traumatised by he nature of her son’s death and the prolonged battle for justice for her son.
“He (Kevin) was so happy on the day, he met so many people that day when Limerick won the Munster Hurling final, and he was hugging them all,” she said. “I am absolutely at the end of my tether, I am trying to heal, but you can’t heal from something you can’t understand,” Ms Tully said.
“We never got time to grieve Kevin or celebrate his wonderful life, and a friend of his sent recently me a photo of them all walking home from the Munster final together, laughing and happy. I couldn’t stop crying when I saw the photo, it is a bittersweet photo of your child five years on that you have never seen before.”
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