Murder rapist - Ireland’s longest serving prisoner - continues legal bid for limited temporary release

The State’s longest serving prisoner is set to continue his legal bid for two days temporary release per year.

English national John Shaw (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 (22) in Wicklow and Mary Duffy (24) in Mayo that year.