Sharon Whelan, 30, and daughters Zarah, seven, and two-year-old Nadia were killed by postman Brian Hennessy at their home in Windgap, Co. Kilkenny, in 2008.
The brother of a woman, who was brutally murdered alongside her two young daughters on Christmas Day morning, has told of his family's mounting fear that the killer could be freed from jail in just over a year.
READ MORE - Triple killer Brian Hennessy to appear before Parole Board within days - just before anniversary of murders Hennessy is now in his 15th year behind bars at Dublin's Arbour Hill, having been handed three 'concurrent' life sentences - which effectively means he serves just one. "It means we, the family members of the victims, are stuck in a loop and unable to move on and find any peace, because every couple of years we get dragged back into the system and it's traumatising.
"In our case, Hennessy successfully appealed for the sentences to run concurrently, so it's like the lives of my sister's two little girls don't matter in the eyes of the law.
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