Domestic abusers’ crimes would be available for all to see under ‘Jennie’s Law’ – and her brother is hoping her legacy is one that helps others
Jason Poole, brother of Jennie Poole, at her memorial garden in Beneavin nursing home. Photo: Mark Condren
Jason Poole, a secondary-school teacher from Finglas in Dublin, is today a man animated by the kind of anguished drive that propels those touched by avoidable tragedy into public life.
He hasn’t always been that way. But in 2021, malignant rage stole his sister, Jennifer Poole. She was a 24-year-old care assistant, mother of two young children and camogie player enjoying a rich and purposeful life, until the day that Gavin Murphy, the man she had just ended a relationship with, unleashed his rage upon her, stabbing her to death with a kitchen knife, and thus reducing a thriving young woman to a statistic.