‘I don’t believe someone who has done something like that should ever be released’

Sister of Siobhan Kearney, Deirdre McLaughlin, at her home in Dalkey, Dublin: 'The law, as I see it, is on the side of the prisoner'. Picture: Gareth Chaney

More than two decades after the murder of her sister, Deirdre McLaughlin jnr still finds herself confronting a question she believes should never need to be asked.

Why should Brian Kearney, the man convicted of killing his wife Siobhán McLaughlin, ever be considered for release?