Death of an ‘abomination’

ONE half of the pair of murderous drifters who terrified Ireland in 1976 has died, but for almost an hour yesterday the crimes of Geoffrey Evans sent a further chill down the spine.

Evans, a native of Lancashire in England, died at St Mary’s Nursing Home in Dublin over the weekend, having been in a coma since complications following heart surgery at the end of 2008.

Evans, along with his fellow Englishman John Shaw, had been serving a life sentence following his conviction for the murders of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, two defenceless women abducted, raped and killed in barbarous circumstances in 1976.