Ireland’s longest-serving prisoner to appeal failed High Court bid for limited release

The State’s longest-serving prisoner is seeking extra time to appeal his unsuccessful High Court bid for two days temporary release per year.

English national John Shaw (aged 73) has been in custody in Ireland since September 1976 when both he and another English man, Geoffrey Evans, were arrested for the abduction, rape, torture and murder of Elizabeth Plunkett (aged 22) in Wicklow and Mary Duffy (aged 24) in Mayo that year.