A heartbreaking case has come to a close as Lynn Eagar, a 49-year-old woman from Winetown, Rathowen, Co Westmeath, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her two young children. Eagar, in a barely audible whisper, pleaded guilty to the murders of five-year-old Thelma Dennany and her two-year-old brother Michael.
The chilling incident occurred on September 9 of last year when Eagar set fire to the car in which her children were sitting in Lackan, Multyfarnham. Fortunately, a passer-by managed to rescue Eagar from the passenger seat, and she suffered only minimal burns.
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