'Daddy was a hero': UK man gets life for brutal murder of Irish boxing champ

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A man from Coventry, England, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Kevin Sheehy, a five-times Irish boxing champion, at the Central Criminal Court. Logan Jackson, aged 31, was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict of murdering the 20-year-old at Hyde Road in Limerick city on 1 July 2019. Jackson had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter. The jury rejected his defence of provocation. Evidence presented at trial established that Jackson repeatedly ran over Mr Sheehy with a Mitsubishi Shogun jeep following a brief altercation outside a house party. A concurrent sentence of seven years was imposed on a second conviction for endangerment involving dangerous driving. Ms Justice Eileen Creedon backdated the sentence to 1 July 2019, when Jackson entered custody. Victim impact statements were read to the court by Mr Sheehy's family members.

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Logan Jackson gets life sentence for murder of Limerick boxer Kevin Sheehy - BreakingNews.ie BreakingNews.ie · Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT
Mum of murdered boxing champ Kevin Sheehy says his child 'will grow up knowing her daddy was a hero' - Irish Mirror Irish Mirror · Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT
Logan Jackson convicted of murder of Limerick boxer Kevin Sheehy - Irish Examiner Irish Examiner · Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT

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