Evil killer, 73, recycles computer parts in jail
Ireland’s longest-serving inmate Shaw ‘keeps to himself’ behind bars
spends two hours every morning and two hours every evening working.
“Old computers from around the country are collected and come to the jail where they are then broken down and recycled.
“There are many usable parts which can be sold on. It keeps him occupied and fills in the hours.
“Never in a million years would you think that Shaw was capable of being behind one of the country’s most disturbing cases.
“He’s very quiet and gentle and just keeps to himself.
“You would never think he was involved in such sick crimes.”
Along with Shaw, Evans was also found guilty and sentenced for one of the country’s most disturbing cases.
He died in 2012 from an infection after spending more than three years in a vegetative state at Dublin’s Mater Hospital.
It’s understood that nobody came forward following his death to claim his remains and he was buried by the Irish
Mary Duffy was murdered
Elizabeth Plunkett died in 1976
John Shaw in 1976
Prison Service in an unmarked grave. In August 1976 the duo kidnapped clerk Ms Plunkett from Ringsend, South Dublin.
They pounced when she left a pub alone after a night out with her friends.
They strangled her and dumped her body, which washed ashore a month later in Ballyteigue Bay.
A short time later, they drove into Castlebar, Co Mayo, looking for another victim. There, they found cook Ms Duffy. They punched her in the face and took her to an old railway station in Connemara where they tortured and repeatedly raped and strangled her. news@irishmirror.ie