Man who murdered four was driven by jealousy

A man has been given four concurrent life sentences for murdering two women and two children.

John Geary, aged 37, of Meadow Court, Newcastle West, Co Limerick, and originally from Milford in North Cork, stabbed his former partner and their five-month-old daughter to death because she had left him. He stabbed the other woman and Ms Hines’ three-year-old son to death because they had arrived at the scene and caught him.

Geary had pleaded guilty to murdering his former partner Sarah Hines, aged 25, their daughter Amy, her brother Reece, and Ms Hines’ friend Alicia Brough, aged 20, at a house in Hazelgrove, Newcastle West, on Nov 15, 2010.