A 57-year-old man who died after a fire broke out at his home in Douglas in Cork yesterday has been named locally as Conor Downey
A 57-YEAR-OLD man who died after a fire broke out at his home in Douglas in Cork yesterday has been named locally as Conor Downey.
The body of Downey was removed from the property by the emergency services. He was formally identified via his dental records.Downey was jailed in 1993 in London for the manslaughter five years earlier of 26-year-old Donegal woman Suzanne Reddan with whom he had been sharing a house.Reddan had been reported missing and had not been found until 1992 when Downey himself went to the police in Surrey and confessed to having killed her.
Downey also gave information to the police on the basis of which some of her body parts were recovered. He only served three years for the killing of Reddan and returned to Cork after his release. In sentencing at the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Kevin Higgins noted that the woman was so savagely beaten when she arrived at the garda station they thought she was wearing a Halloween mask. The second serious incident for which he was jailed also occurred in 1988.
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