Even in death, the allure of Catherine Nevin is irresistible
IT’S hard to believe that Catherine Nevin is still making headlines from beyond the grave.
Nevin was found guilty in 2000 of the murder of her husband Tom, who was shot dead in March 1996 in his pub, Jack White’s Inn, in Brittas, Co. Wicklow.
Catherine Nevin went to her absolute final day of judgment in February 2018, and although we’ve no idea what the verdict there was, this week our Supreme Court reached a decision on one aspect of a case involving the worldly goods she left behind.
The court ruled that Nevin’s murder conviction can be relied on by Tom Nevin’s family in their bid to ensure that his widow’s estate does not benefit from her victim’s estate.
Lawyers for the killer’s estate argued that her murder conviction does not amount to proof of her guilt, but was proof only that she was ‘found guilty’.
It all goes back to legal action taken by Tom Nevin’s family to have Catherine Nevin disinherited in line with Section 120 of the Succession Act.
Tom Nevin died without making a will. If he hadn’t been murdered, his property would have transferred to his wife Catherine, since they had no children.
The murder trial that eventually ended with a guilty verdict was an extraordinary spectacle with Catherine Nevin turning up each day like she was attending some sort of a gala night out.
The evidence was intriguing as well, suggesting hankypanky on a fairly grand scale. Which prompted one well-placed observer to comment: ‘I never came across so many unattractive people having so much sex.’