A LIMERICK man who murdered his former partner, their baby daughter, her infant son and another woman was given four life sentences at the Central Criminal Court today.
John Geary (37), of Meadow Court, Newcastle West pleaded guilty to all charges and is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Sarah Hines (25), her two children Reese (3), five-month-old baby daughter Amy, and her friend Alicia Brough (20) were stabbed to death at Sarah’s rented home in Hazelbrook, Newcastle, Limerick in November 2010.
The murders were committed shortly after Ms Hynes had finished her relationship with Geary who confronted her in her Newcastle home where she had been living with her friend Alicia Brough on the night of November 15, 2010.
Geary stabbed Ms Hines and Ms Brough as well as his five-month-old daughter Amy and three-year-old Reese before leaving the scene.
Hours after the brutal murders, Geary rang a friend from a public payphone and said that he had “done something terrible”.
The friend in turn informed a retired Garda and the call was traced to a payphone in Kilkee where Gardaí found Geary drinking in a bar, some 36 hours after he committed the four murders. He was arrested and taken to the Midwestern Hospital in Limerick where he was treated for cuts to his arm thought to have been sustained as one or more of his victims fought for their lives.
He was charged with the four murders the following day and appeared before the Central Criminal Court last month when a trial was scheduled.
