John Sweetman
speaker
14,352 appearances
33 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3d ago
John Sweetman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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John Gallagher sat in court with his head in his hands, occasionally crying and clutching a set of rosary beads.
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By a majority of ten votes to two, the jury found him guilty.
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But insane.
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The verdict meant that the jury accepted that Gallagher had killed Annie and Anne, but believed he had been suffering from a temporary psychotic breakdown at the time.
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As a result, he was found not criminally responsible for the murders.
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The Gillespie family had sat through every painful detail of the trial.
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They had listened as witnesses described how Gallagher had tracked Anne down, armed himself with a loaded rifle, followed her to the hospital where she was visiting her sick grandmother, and then shot both Anne and her mother dead, all because she wanted to end their relationship.
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Now, despite accepting that he had carried out the killings, the jury had found him not criminally responsible.
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For the family, it felt like the final blow.
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To many, the verdict seemed like a get out of jail free card.
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The Gillespie knew better than most how manipulative Gallagher could be.
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Their fear was immediate and deeply unsettling.
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If doctors eventually decided that he had recovered, what was to stop him from walking free?
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Unlike a prison sentence, there was no fixed term, no date circled on the calendar.
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His future would rest in the hands of psychiatrists and review boards.
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And one day those same authorities could decide that John Gallagher was no longer a danger.
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Anne's former teacher was devastated by the outcome.
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She felt that it was a national scandal that despite Anne's pleas for help, she would end up facing three days of terror before her eventual murder.
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The anger spread far beyond the courtroom.
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Across Dunnegal and Sligo, many felt that the verdict had somehow diminished Annie and Anne, reducing the horror of what had happened to a debate about Gallagher's state of mind.
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