'This is no justice': Psycho who murdered baby and girlfriend after she dumped him could be freed
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A mum has expressed her horror that the monster who murdered her daughter and two grandchildren is due for a parole hearing just seven years after the massacre.
John Geary, 42, brutally stabbed his former partner Sarah Hines, 25, and their five-month-old daughter Amy to death with knives and a screwdriver in a fit of jealousy after she left him for her childhood sweetheart.
And tragically, Sarah’s three-year-old son Reece and her friend Alicia Brough, 20, walked in on the bloody scene and Geary murdered them too.
He then booked into a hotel room and went out drinking.
But Geary is now due to have his first parole board review after serving just seven years of a life sentence for the 2010 massacre, the Irish Mirror reports.
Sarah’s horrified mum Abina Ring said: “I was pulling my hair out, I couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe they would even think about it.
"It was like dragging it out and going over it all again, just as I was starting to get my head together.”
Geary, from Newcastle West, Co Limerick, pleaded guilty to the four murders and was given four concurrent life terms by Justice Paul Carney in July 2013.
He admitted stabbing his baby daughter and former girlfriend to death ebfore he booked into a hotel and went drinking.
Sarah suffered 21 injuries, including stab wounds to the face, neck and scalp.
The monster also stabbed baby Amy nine times. Alicia and Reece, who had been at the butchers, arrived at the house in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, in the middle of the attack.
Alicia was stabbed between 14 and 16 times.
Reece was attacked with a screwdriver and knife 15 times.
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Mrs Ring suffered a heart attack shortly after finding out the gruesome details of the murders.
She said she is terrified Geary will be released on a technicality and revealed how reading the letter from the Parole Board has caused heartache for the family.
She added: “It’s going to take a lot more than seven years to feel Sarah, Reece and Amy got any justice. They’re the ones who are not breathing, who are not getting justice.
“He might be in prison but he’s still living.”
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Mrs Ring said her family has never completely come to terms with the tragedy and receiving the latest news has reopened old wounds.
She added: “We’re like in a mist, it’s a mist we haven’t come out of yet.”
Mrs Ring believes Geary doesn’t feel remorse for his actions, describing him as a predator who used her daughter’s kindness to his advantage.
She said: “He just sat there staring, he didn’t show any remorse and it ripped my heart apart.
“I have no doubt he would do something like this again if he was given the chance. He is pure evil.”