Getting away with murder no more

Colin Whelan thought he could evade capture and prison - but he was wrong, write John Breslin and Siobhan Gaffney.

DAVID GOUGH, sitting just yards from Colin Whelan, directly addressed his sister’s killer and vowed never to forgive him.

“You caused devastation to our family when you brutally strangled Mary and you took a piece of us too,” said David, speaking on behalf of a family living a “life sentence” since the death of the only girl in the family of five, who lost their father in 1989.