Sadness has been expressed after former US death row inmate turned campaigner Sunny Jacobs died following a fire in Ireland.
The 77-year-old yoga teacher who was originally from New York was found dead following the blaze at the Sunny Healing Centre in rural Co Galway.
She spent 17 years in prison in the US, a number of them on death row, following a conviction for murder.
Ms Jacobs was released in 1992 after her sentence and imprisonment were quashed.
Gardaí said emergency services were alerted to the incident at Gleann Mhic Mhuireann in Casla at around 6.20am on Tuesday.
Gardaí said the bodies of a woman aged in her 70s and a man in his 30s were recovered from inside the…