"Double murderer Ruth Lawrence has today been given two separate life sentences for shooting a man and working in tandem with her boyfriend to murder him and another man, with the victim's bodies later found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the midlands over a decade ago."
"In her victim impact statement, Karen Roche told the Central Criminal Court that her partner Eoin O'Connor had died after seeing his best friend shot dead in front of him."
"I think of the panic he must have felt when he knew he was going to be next. I know he struggled and fought and tried his best to live but they wouldn't let him,"
Ruth Lawrence received two life sentences for shooting one man and collaborating with her boyfriend to murder another, with both victims' bodies later found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the midlands more than a decade after the killings. One victim was shot while the other was murdered in tandem with Lawrence's boyfriend. Karen Roche provided a victim impact statement describing that her partner Eoin O'Connor died after witnessing his best friend shot dead in front of him, and that O'Connor panicked, struggled, fought and tried to survive but was prevented from living.
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