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The High Court has been asked by the State to halt an action for damages brought against it by the widower of Sylvia Roche Kelly, from Sixmilebridge, who was murdered in Limerick seven years ago. The body of Ms Roche Kelly, a mother of two young children, was found lying face down in the bath of a hotel room in December, 2007 after she met her killer while out celebrating her 33rd birthday. She had been violently beaten and strangled. Gerard McGrath (24) Ballywalter, Knockavilla, County Tipperary, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court five years ago to life imprisonment after admitting murdering Ms Roche Kelly at The Clarion Hotel, Limerick, on December 8, 2007. McGrath was on bail at that time on a charge of assaulting a female taxi driver in April 2007. Lorcan Roche Kelly, on behalf of his two children, has sued the State and the Garda Commissioner for damages, alleging his wife’s killer was “free to …
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