Cold-blooded killer (From Daily Echo)
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Cold-blooded killer
11:55am Friday 18th June 2010 in Swanwick Murder
Roger Kearney
THROUGHOUT THE six-week trial there was an air of arrogance surrounding Kearney that colleagues at the Royal Mail depot where he worked, say was one of the main reasons why he was regarded as so unpopular.
This was a man who thought he had got away with murder. Kearney even boasted to colleagues that this time next year he would be living in France, paid for by the compensation he was expecting to get from the Royal Mail, who he insisted had dismissed him unfairly as a result of the allegations against him.
He was in fact, a cold-blooded killer who had his family and friends convinced of his innocence.
Just minutes after stabbing Paula to death, Kearney was at work, carrying on as normal, as if nothing had happened.
In the days after, nobody – not even those closest to him – noticed anything different about his behaviour.
But Kearney was well practised at keeping things secret and just as he was able to keep his double life with Paula hidden, he was able to keep the terrifying truth of Paula’s murder from everyone.
The 57-year-old was a loner, a man who was able to keep emotions bubbling under the surface, who was unpopular with his colleagues, where he had worked since 1975.
Colleagues say that nobody really knew him even after 35 years in the same job. He was a man they described as “aloof”, who “kept himself to himself”, with very few friends. A man they all called “Lord Snooty” behind his back.
Twice-divorced, he has two grown up daughters by his first marriage and three grandchildren.
Yesterday he showed no emotion as he was led away to begin his life sentence.
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8:56pm Fri 18 Jun 10
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12:06pm Tue 22 Jun 10
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5:30pm Fri 18 Jun 10
Just one thing I must put straight, her murderers behaviour did change after her death - he began to try to make conversation with people he had barely spoken to in the previous 20 yrs -one of whom had a similar car to Mr Kearney and was so concerned about his (Kearneys) sudden interest in him he reported it.
Also when he attended a Christmas party (2008) his behaviour was in complete contrast to previous years, whereas before he had always sat and looked down his nose at the rest of us overdoing the "dads dancing", on this occasion , according to those who attended he was the life and soul and rarely off the dancefloor where he was "giving it large". As someone says it was like he was trying to say "look at me, look at how normal I am".
One other thing, though he had very few supporters among his work colleagues even those who did initially stick by him were staggered by the fact that he never said four fairly small but significant words - " I didn't do it"!