A WOMAN arrested by Gardaí on Monday in connection with the murder of champion Limerick boxer Kevin Sheehy has been released without charge.
Mr Sheehy’s mother, Tracey Tully, said that whoever was involved in her son’s killing must be brought to justice.
Gardaí arrested a woman in her 30s on Monday morning in connection with the 2019 murder.
Following the woman’s release from custody, Gardaí said their investigations into the murder were “ongoing”.
A man was convicted of the murder in December 2021, however Gardaí suspect others were involved in aiding and abetting the killer.
Mr Sheehy, 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 4×4 jeep at the five-time national boxing champ on July 1, 2019.
Jackson, of Longford Road, Coventry, was found guilty of Mr Sheehy’s murder by a jury’s unanimous decision at the Central Criminal Court in December 2021.
Ms Tully said after the fresh arrest on Monday: “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,” said 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, despit Ms Tully taking 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 told this reporter last July.
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.
