{"id":205237,"date":"2025-11-28T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:52:13","slug":"man-jailed-for-life-for-murder-of-irish-pensioner-john-mackey-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205237\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for life for murder of Irish pensioner John Mackey in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Mackey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d9c61528-d237-4fae-9413-e491a9966885.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Mackey<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A robber who fatally kicked, punched and stamped on a vulnerable Irish pensioner before taking off with a box of cornflakes and a cottage pie has been sentenced in a London court to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 23 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John Mackey (87), who was originally from Callan, Co Kilkenny, but moved to the UK as a young man, was targeted by unemployed Peter Augustine (59) after he visited a Co-op store in Manor House, north London, on the afternoon of May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Mackey A robber who fatally kicked, punched and stamped on a vulnerable Irish pensioner before taking off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,112802,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-205237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-press-association-pa","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115628837807235987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}