Episode 32: Two Brits and an Irish Pact
Episode description
Britons John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans would become known as Ireland’s first serial killers. The sinister duo first met while serving time together in an England prison during the 1970s and it is there the two career criminals concocted their sinister sick plot to abduct, torture, rape and murder a woman once a week. Once released from the English prison the deadly two would leave the UK and travel around Ireland committing burglaries for several years. In the long hot summer of 1976, Shaw and Evans twisted sinister plot would begin and ending in the murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett in County Wicklow, Ireland, and the murder of 24-year-old Mary Duffy in County Mayo, Ireland. Both young women were savagely beaten and brutally raped by both Shaw and Evans, eventually being killed with their lifeless bodies being discarded into the sea. At trial the court would hear how Shaw had told police: “I didn’t want to do it. It was Evans, he made me do it. “God help me. The devil made me do it. Keep him away from me.” So, were these the horrific acts of two sinister minds or was this the work of one sinister mind who forced another to be his accomplice?
References:
State's longest prisoner John Shaw granted two days of temporary release per year, appeal court told | The Irish Sun (thesun.ie)
The late summer murders: Two men on a mission to kill Irish women – The Irish Times
State’s longest-serving prisoner in fresh bid to secure temporary release – The Irish Times
A lifetime behind bars - the killers who are our longest-serving prisoners - Independent.ie
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