Mother of boys killed by their father fears Parole Bill is 'just sitting on a desk'

Mother of boys killed by their father fears Parole Bill is 'just sitting on a desk'
Kathleen Chada, mother of Eoghan and Ruairi Chada speaking at the Safe World Summit opening ceremony in 2018. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Kathleen Chada, the mother of two boys killed by their father almost seven years ago, has said she fears new legislation which would extend the jail term a prisoner must serve before they can seek parole, is “just sitting on a desk some where.” 

Her former husband Sanjeev Chada, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 after driving his sons, Eoghan (10) and Ruairí (five), to Co Mayo before strangling them in late July 2013 and subsequently crashing his car.

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