2003 file image of Pearse McAuley
FORMER-IRA MEMBER, domestic abuser and convicted garda-killer Pearse McAuley has died.
McAuley was convicted of killing Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during a robbery in Adare, Co Limerick in 1996.
He served 10 and a half years for manslaughter.
In 2015, he was sentence to 12 years for stabbing his then estranged wife, school teacher Pauline Tully, on Christmas eve 2014.
Tully, now a Sinn Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan, has previously spoken about the abuse she suffered at the hands of the convicted killer.
Tully met McAuley while he was serving his sentence for the killing of Jerry McCabe.
McAuley was granted temporary release in 2003 so the pair could be married.
On Christmas eve in 2014 he stabbed Tully 13 times over the course of three and a half hours.
During that time he brought Tully’s children in and made them say goodbye to their mother.
After being convicted for the attack in 2015, McAuley was released from prison in 2022.
With reporting from Niall O’Connor.
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