Justice for John
By: Hilary Torney
Publisher: H. Torney
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Belfast?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780956589804
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder)
Description: On September 20th, 1994, police constable John Torney telephoned Cookstown police station in County Tyrone to say that his wife and daughter had been shot dead by his teenage son. His wife, Linda, and his two children, John Junior, 13 and Emma, 11, were found dead at the family's Lomond Heights home. Torney maintaned that John Junior carried out the killings before turning the gun on himself, but the following year, Torney was convicted of murdering all three of them. He died in jail in 2005 of a suspected heart attack, still protesting his innocence. His family have kept up the fight to clear his name.