{"id":163975,"date":"2025-11-28T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163975\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:15:07","slug":"man-to-be-sentenced-for-murder-of-irish-pensioner-in-london-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163975\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to be sentenced for murder of Irish pensioner in London \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2025\/11\/13\/john-mackeys-family-remember-him-as-perfect-uncle-after-man-found-guilty-of-his-murder\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2025\/11\/13\/john-mackeys-family-remember-him-as-perfect-uncle-after-man-found-guilty-of-his-murder\/\">found guilty of the murder and robbery of Kilkenny pensioner<\/a> John Mackey in London is due to be sentenced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/old-bailey\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/old-bailey\">Old Bailey<\/a> in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Peter Augustine (59) followed frail Mr Mackey to a secluded walkway in Manor House near the 87-year-old\u2019s north London home in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Augustine then beat and stamped on Mr Mackey and stole his takeaway meal of sausage and chips. He also took Mr Mackey\u2019s shopping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Mackey, originally from Callan, Co Kilkenny, died of his injuries in hospital two days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Augustine denied murder and robbery, but a unanimous jury of seven women and five men found him guilty on November 13th after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"John Mackey, from Callan, Co Kilkenny, was killed in Manor House, London\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/QFVRLALFNZA6TNFDJXMBT3PA3I.png\"   width=\"800\" height=\"599\"\/>John Mackey, from Callan, Co Kilkenny, was killed in Manor House, London <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The trial, which lasted almost a fortnight, was repeatedly disrupted by Augustine, who refused to attend on certain days but shouted at judges and lawyers on the days that he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man found guilty of the murder and robbery of Kilkenny pensioner John Mackey in London is due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,91392],"class_list":{"0":"post-163975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-old-bailey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}