Jasmine McMonagle's mother says she relives the killing and wonders if her daughter called out for her family before she died.
The court also heard from Jasmine McMonagle's daughter, who was eight when her mother was killed while she was in the house.The child added: "I miss my Mammy so much" and said her loss was especially felt around occasions like Christmas and her birthday.In his victim impact statement, the child's father said she lived in constant fear Richard Burke would escape justice and come to kill her and her little sister.
"The pain I feel is indescribable. I do not feel like the person I once was, I had my daughter taken from me in the most horrific way." A Garda officer told the court that Burke had 23 previous convictions including possession of drugs, criminal damage, assault, various public order offences and possession of knives.
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