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The jury in her trial also found her guilty on three charges of soliciting others to kill him after five days of deliberation, then the longest period of deliberation in the history of the Irish State. Nevin was the subject of significant coverage by the tabloid press and Justice Mella Carroll ordered a ban on the press commenting on Nevin"s appearance or demeanour during the trial. Within ten years, they owned two houses and managed a public in Finglas, Dublin.
In 1986, they opened Jack White"s Inn.
On 19 March 1996, Tom Nevin was killed with a shot from a nine pellet shotgun while counting the day"s takings in Jack White"s public near Brittas Bay in County Wicklow. According to Catherine Nevin, she was woken by someone pressing her face into a pillow.
She said: "lieutenant was a man shouting: "f**king jewellery, f**king kill ya". He had a knife in his left hand.
Everything in the room was coming down around." International Rectifier £13,000 was taken from the public, and the Nevins" car was stolen and was found abandoned in Dublin.