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KATHLEEN CHADA, WHOSE husband murdered their two sons, has recalled the moment that her husband told her that her sons were dead, saying that he should never “have any freedom again”.
Chada was speaking in a video by TV3 in advance of a new documentary, Killer in the Family: True Lives, which will air on the station at 9pm tonight.
Her husband Sanjeev killed their two sons, Eoghan and Ruairi, in 2013. The sons had been reported missing the evening before they were found dead near Westport, Co Mayo, in the boot of a vehicle after a single car crash. They were aged 10 and five.
He had told her that he would take the boys out for the day, and leave her the afternoon to herself, but she became concerned when they did not return in the evening.
It probably got to about half nine and I started wondering where he was. You know it was like, he has to be somewhere. He’s hiding somewhere. Are the boys frightened? Are they wondering what’s going on?
He rang her the next day and said: “The boys are dead in the back,” she recalled.
I kind of lost it at that stage and was like ‘No way, they couldn’t be.’ And I remember screaming and I remember sitting on the couch and going ‘Please tell me my boys are OK.’
Sanjeev was sentenced to two life sentences in 2014. In January of this year, Chada secured a High Court judgment of over €77,000 against him.
She described the decision to pursue the injunction at the time as “part of a process”. “It was part of the separation proceedings. I wouldn’t have expected it to make news. The process wasn’t difficult,” she told Pat Kenny on Newstalk FM.
She recalled that her husband was perfectly sane at the time of the murders, and that she considered her children to be safe if they were with him.
On TV3, she describes how she is adjusting as time passes.
There’s a part of me that thinks that I’ll end up bumping into him over the grave some day in the future. That bothers me because he shouldn’t. He should never, ever have the freedom. Or have any freedom again.
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Not enough socialism, apparently.
@P.J. Nolan: essential ingredients of successful durable socialism is a brutally heavy handed military government, fake elections and an elite oligarchy. It never works without those pillars.
@alphanautica: you mean like norway, sweden or finland? Awful kips huh? Thank god we live here.
@Fake Avast: Yeah it was the USA that made Venezuela into an ungovernable socialist hellhole and not the policies of Hugo Chavez as he rots in the ground
Venezuela is AAA-PBP-SF’s role model economy.
This article is clearly as cheap shot at undermining their economic expertise.
@alphanautica: #pearseknowsbest
@Honeybadger197: Corbyn should head over on a mission. Give him a good PA system on the main square, they’d all settle down quite quickly once the hear what he has to say.
@alphanautica: There is virtually no policy in Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto that isn’t already followed in the Nordic states. Try playing another record, the Venezuela analogies are looking every bit as threadbare as Lynton Crosby’s IRA smear campaign.
@Harry Whitehead: you might want to get on to Corbyn so: ‘Chavez showed us that there is a different and a better way of doing things’ are his own words coming out of his own megaphone.
All those Corbyn cultists from earlier on should take note that this is his vision of a country that “got socialism right”.
How did we accept austerity so easily? Was it because it mainly dehumanised the poorest & sickest citizens especially Labour and FGs extremely regressive 5 budgets from hell.
Labour you are Still 4-6% in the polls cos u lied to the most vulnerable and caused homelessness ti become the norm for the badly off and people are years now waiting in agony on hospital waiting lists.
No matter what happened in Venezuela it wasn’t these young people’s fault more the fault of older people. If it was my child I’d want them where they were safe which is here.
The Journal goes straight for the click-bait kill as usual. A man wasn’t set alight, he was beating an abandoned state-owned motorbike with a stick, the petrol tank exploded and his clothes caught fire. It was a horrific event, but please don’t resort to lazy journalism for the sake of dramatic headlines
…oh, the unending joys of socialism!
Hopefully Venezuela has an Enda Kenny rising up through the political ranks who can rescue their country from the brink.
As happened in Ireland, we barely escaped the deathly clutches of the hard left, those naive self-convinced loons beset on suffocating economic improvement through hard work and instead wanting to suck an economy dry with their inert socialist begging bowl.
Perhaps there will be Enda Kenny tshirts circulating soon in Venezuela, modelled on Che Guevara, another proud Irishman of principle.
He’s not asking anyone to pay his tuition, the chap was robbed by his government like all the other students who have been robbed of life savings who came here to study. He is highlighting a situation that a lot of Venezuela’s who are here are in. Venezuela is in a dire place and the people are being killed in the streets everyday. They are being starved and robbed. How you can make light of that is beyond me.
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