'I wonder is she laughing now': Ruth Lawrence gets two life terms for double murder

One of the victim's partners said: 'I think of the panic he must have felt when he knew he was going to be next.'

Ruth Lawrence fled to South Africa in the aftermath of the murders and was extradited back to Ireland in May 2023. File picture: Collins Courts

Double murderer Ruth Lawrence has today been given two separate life sentences for shooting a drug dealer and working in tandem with her boyfriend to murder him and another man.

The victim's bodies were later found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the Midlands over a decade ago.