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Cold-case review of 1940’s Tipperary murder.

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A South Tipperary farmer executed for the murder of a mother of 7 over 72 years ago could be exonerated by the state.

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The Office of the Attorney General has appointed a team to review of the case of Harry Gleeson who was convicted for the death of Mary Moll McCarthy in 1940.

In a case that divided a close knit community -the body of the mother of 7 was discovered by Mr Gleeson in a remote part of his uncle's farm in New Inn on the 21th of November 1940

He was subsequently convicted of her murder and put to death days after Taoiseach Eamon DeValera rejected a mercy plea.

In the subsequent years Harry Glesson's family have campaigned to clear his name and say they have new forensic evidence to clear his name.

They turned to the Irish Innocence Project- part of a world wide wrongful conviction organisation who lobbied the Justice Minister who subsequently sanctioned the cold case review..

A decision on a pardon may be made within a matter of months
 

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