Bailed offenders who took lives
NAME: Gerald Barry, above RELEASED ON BAIL: August 2007
OFFENCE: Violent assault on his ex-girlfriend CRIME WHILE ON BAIL: Raped and killed 17-year-old Swiss student Manuela Riedo in Galway in October 2007. Mr Barry had a violent history and first came to the attention of gardaí in 1996 – aged 16 – when he was part of a gang that attacked a group of men on a stag party in Galway city, resulting in the death of Colm Phelan, 26, from Tipperary.
NAME: Jerry McGrath RELEASED ON BAIL: April 2007 OFFENCE: Attacked a woman taxi driver
CRIME WHILE ON BAIL: Murdered Sylvia Roche Kelly in a Limerick hotel in December 2007. McGrath met his victim in a nightclub that night; she had been celebrating her birthday with her sister. She agreed to go back to his hotel room where he violently beat her and choked her to death.
NAME: Celyn Eadon
RELEASED ON BAIL: February 2011 – gardaí believed he had been granted bail when in fact the judge had issued a warrant for him to be sent to prison for ten days and to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. However, the warrant was lost and Eadon walked free.
OFFENCE: 7 road traffic offences CRIME WHILE RELEASED: Murdered his mother Nóirín KellyEadon, 46, in their family home near Castlebar, Co. Mayo, three weeks after being in court. His mother had taken drugs from his bedroom and destroyed them on the day of the attack, in which he stabbed her 19 times.
NAME: Michael Taylor RELEASED ON BAIL: 2006 OFFENCE: Having cocaine for sale or supply
CRIME WHILE RELEASED: Shot and killed father-of-two Paul Kelly in April 2007 as part of a feud. Was arrested while attempting to rob a Securicor cash van with two other men.
NAME: Adrian Crevan Mackin, pictured right RELEASED ON BAIL: January 2015 OFFENCE: Caught with bomb components, charged with membership of an illegal organisation CRIME WHILE ON
BAIL: Murdered Garda Tony Golden and seriously injured Siobhán Philips – Crevan Mackin’s girlfriend – after shooting her four times in October 2015. He then turned the gun on himself and died.