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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Detective Sergeant John Fitzgerald, a veteran investigator who had worked on almost thirty murder inquiries during his career, never forgot the case.
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Calling it the saddest of all cases he's worked on.
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For those who had known Anne, memories of the case were inseparable from memories of the girl herself.
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One former classmate later recalled that
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When I hear the name John Gallagher, I sometimes close my eyes and think of a beautiful, shy, and well mannered girl sitting beside me in biology.
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Her long red hair, rosy cheeks, lovely smile and quiet personality will live with me forever.
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For the Gillespie family though there was an added threat.
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John Gallagher had not been sent to a prison.
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He had been sent to a psychiatric hospital, and no one could tell them how long he would stay there.
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Months?
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Years?
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Could the man who killed Annie and Anne walk back into the same community?
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He had shattered.
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The verdict may have ended the trial, but it didn't end the case.
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Under the Trial of Lunatics Act eighteen eighty three, a person found guilty but insane was not sentenced in the conventional sense.
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Instead they were detained indefinitely at the pleasure of the government.
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In practical terms, that meant John Gallagher's future lay not with the courts, but with the Minister for Justice.
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The legislation, already abolished in England, remained on Ireland's statute books despite years of criticism.
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A government report in nineteen seventy eight had urged urgent reform, warning that the law was outdated and unsatisfactory.
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Yet, more than a decade later, nothing had changed.
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