{"id":420255,"date":"2026-04-27T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:43:08","slug":"cavan-man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420255\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavan man pleads guilty to murdering mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cavan man has pleaded guilty to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father at the family home in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Heyneman was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court this afternoon, where prosecution senior counsel Gerardine Small said the defendant could be arraigned on two charges.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old, with an address at Kilnavart, Ballyconnell in Co Cavan, pleaded guilty to a charge that he murdered Annie Heyneman at that address on 11 January, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted attempting to murder Henk Heyneman at the same address on the same date.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Small told the court that victim impact statements would be required.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0021b585-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nDanny Heyneman pleaded guilty to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father (File image)<\/p>\n<p>Keith Spencer BL, representing Danny Heyneman, asked that an education and governors&#8217; reports be prepared in respect of his client.<\/p>\n<p>He told the court the defence intends to use parts of a previously prepared psychiatric report at the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Justice Paul McDermott fixed a sentencing date of 19 May.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would hear background evidence to the case and victim impact statements on that date.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also directed that education and governors&#8217; reports be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cavan man has pleaded guilty to murdering his mother and attempting to murder his father at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-420255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420255","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=420255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}