The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee

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The ex-fighter, known as The Terminator during a professional career where he held the Commonwealth welterweight title, vehemently denies the charges. In episode one, Jonathan Gault speaks for the first time about the murder of his father in 2002. Paul Gault was found murdered in his home in Lisburn where he lived with his wife, Lesley, and their five-year-old triplets. Initially, detectives believed they were dealing with a violent burglary gone wrong, but it soon became clear that the crime scene was meticulously staged, suggesting a deeper, more sinister motive.

We shake hands, nod a greeting to one another and agree to find a quiet spot after the weigh-in formalities to sit down and discuss my vision for his story. Magee grew up in the nationalist Ardoyne area of Belfast and was in and out of trouble as a youth. Magee came from a boxing obsessed family, at the age of twelve, Magee's mother enrolled a him in the local boxing club. Magee stated that for his mother "boxing was as important as school". Magee's three older brothers were also boxers with two of them, Terry Magee and Noel Magee, having careers as professional boxers. His brother Noel was also a Commonwealth title champion. Orhan Koca (39) mistakenly believed the confession formed part of a deal to secure a 10-year prison sentence for the fatal stabbing in west Belfast, judges were told.

I don’t want to talk about all this on the phone,’ Magee decides after a couple of minutes listening to my rambling pitch. ‘Come over here and we’ll sit down face to face and see what happens.’ This is as good as I could have expected. He hasn’t swung the door wide open, but neither has he slammed it shut in my face. Eamonn jnr (22) was a rising star in the boxing world, hoping to follow in the footsteps of his father Eamonn Magee snr, a former welterweight champion. I had felt calm when I took the call which told me about Magee’s latest scrap. My mood remained the same in the cab rumbling through the familiar streets of Belfast, passing the old Republican murals and the high Peace Walls which still separate Catholic and Protestant communities. I even felt OK when, after I rang the bell, two pit bulls next door leapt at the fence, barking fiercely. “They’re wee nippers,” their owner warned as he pulled the dogs away. I tried rehab and I said no, no, no! Not having TV was worse than no drink' Eamonn Magee A barman's legal bid to overturn his conviction for murdering boxer Eamonn Magee Jr will be heard later this month, judges have confirmed. Because of his Irish title win, Magee should have automatically been nominated as the Irish entrant for the qualification tournament for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics however, a number of members from the Ulster Boxing Council abstained from voting for his nomination and this led to the Irish (IABA) selection team requesting that Magee fight a preliminary fight against Corkman Billy Walsh, a boxer whom he had already beaten to win the Irish title. In protest, Magee then turned down the chance to box off for the place at the Barcelona Olympics as he felt he was the automatic choice.

Magee grew up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast and was in and out of trouble as a youth. Magee came from a boxing obsessed family, at the age of twelve, Magee's mother enrolled him in the local boxing club. Magee stated that for his mother "boxing was as important as school". Magee's three older brothers were also boxers; two of them, Terry and Noel, having careers as professional boxers. His brother Noel was also a Commonwealth title champion. Alex McGreey. "Magee's trainer: Hatton's fought no one". IrishBoxing.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007 . Retrieved 13 May 2007. Warren, Frank (3 February 2017). "Frank Warren adds Shea Neary's son James Metcalfe, Aston Brown to stable". World Boxing News. Retrieved 21 September 2017. His ex-partner had started a new relationship with Mr Magee after they met at a gym where he worked.Appearing remotely from prison, Koca indicated: "If he can't represent me I can't represent myself because I have difficulty in reading, I can only read basic words." Before the fight Magee had stated that Burke was "old, slow journeyman. Paul is the sort who hangs in and takes far more punishment than he should. I'll do him a favour and get it over fast".

She said: "I told Orhan I didn't love him any more, that I was in love with someone else. He asked who it was but I didn't tell him." He was stabbed to death in Twinbrook in 2015. A man was jailed in 2017 for a minimum of 14 years after admitting his murder. It is his instructions that he understood he was pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Magee, and he continued to believe that would precipitate a sentence of 10 years because that is what he had consistently understood to have been discussed," the barrister said.The southpaw boxed for Ireland as an amateur and, like his brother Noel, won a number of Irish national titles and won a silver medal at the World Junior Championships at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in 1989. In 1991, Magee won the Irish National Senior light welterweight title. IABA. "World Junior Championships". IABA. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006 . Retrieved 13 October 2006. Representing himself, Koca appeared remotely from prison for today's preliminary hearing at the Court of Appeal. Koca had been motivated by jealousy when he armed himself and went to his former family home with the intention of killing the engineering student and personal trainer, a previous court heard. The Crime I Can’t Forget, with narration by Richard Dormer, starts on BBC One Northern Ireland on Wednesday 15 November, 10.40pm. The full series will also be available on BBC iPlayer.