Death in Connemara: who was Sunny Jacobs?
Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was 76 when she died on Tuesday morning in a house fire in Connemara.
Her tragic death made headlines far beyond Galway and Ireland because Jacobs had led a truly remarkable life. It included a death row sentence for the murder of two policemen in Florida in 1976.
She spent 17 years in a US jail, five in solitary confinement, before a deal with prosecutors saw her released in 1995.
Another person died in the fire in the remote cottage, her carer a young man called Kevin Kelly from Moycullen.
Her life – before and after that highway shooting – has been chronicled in books…
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