Victims' families plead for reform as quadruple killer applies for parole

Justice Minister Helen McEntee said her department was working on legislation which would allow a judge to recommend that a criminal would not come before the parole board for 20 to 30 years.

Simon Harris has been urged to rush through legislation that would stop families of the victims of some of the country’s worst criminals from being put through traumatic parole hearings for at least 20 years.

Maria Dempsey was speaking as quadruple killer John Geary, who killed her daughter Alicia Brough in November 2010, is again applying for parole to get out of prison.