Pain of daughter and family’s 2010 murder lives on for grieving mother

The mother of a 25-year-old woman stabbed to death along with her friend and two children, has spoken for the first time about the pain of losing her only daughter and grandchildren.

Abina Ring, 51, lost her daughter Sarah Hines and her children Reece, 3, and five-month-old baby Amy, when they were murdered by John Geary at their home in Newcastle West, Co Limerick on November 15, 2010.

The 37-year-old murdered his ex-partner and their five-month-old daughter because she had left him. He also killed Ms Hines’ three-year-old son Reece, and her friend Alicia Brough, 20, because they happened upon the scene.