{"id":425422,"date":"2026-04-30T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:01:11","slug":"mum-of-eight-who-went-on-run-with-husband-who-was-wanted-over-gun-murder-spared-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425422\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum-of-eight who went on run with husband who was wanted over gun murder spared jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jenifer Devine Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cc596575-ec4d-4bd1-a8fc-50609675ba24.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jenifer Devine Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A mother-of-eight who went on the run with her &#8220;cocaine shovelling&#8221; husband as gardai hunted him for murdering her brother-in-law has avoided jail, with a judge noting her role as sole carer to her young children while their father is serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sentencing judge Ms Justice Melanie Greally today also noted evidence that Jenifer Devine was afraid of her husband, whom the defendant called a &#8220;snake&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenifer Devine Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie A mother-of-eight who went on the run with her &#8220;cocaine shovelling&#8221; husband as gardai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-425422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425422","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=425422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}