This powerful and raw memoir tells the story of Eamonn Magee, a world-champion boxer from Ireland who struggled with addiction, violence, and tragedy. Judges were told Koca would never have pleaded guilty to murder if he had fully appreciated the situation. In 1994, Magee (who is a supporter Celtic football club) was charged with affray after getting into a bar room brawl with a group of Rangers fans in a Belfast City Centre pub. I never bullied anybody in my life, so you can rephrase that,” he says quietly when I mention his violent infamy.

you should never treat a human being like that, especially a foreign national who doesn't understand English. The Masked Singer UK's Owl is unveiled as TV icon leaving viewers gobsmacked as host Joel Dommet declares: 'This is the best reveal we have ever had! But he subsequently pleaded guilty and was jailed for what was described at trial as "a pre-meditated and planned murder which was both brutal and sustained". Magee agrees but, first, we remember his son who was stabbed to death in May 2015 – by the jealous ex-husband of his girlfriend.Doesn’t matter Eamonn Magee is a boxer; he could have an undertaker and still lived a life none of us could match.

The former boxer, who knocked down Ricky Hatton in 2002 and was a world champion when he won the WBU welterweight title, is cut and bruised from being attacked the night before.A left-hander, Magee 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 in 1989. Some two years after the killing, Koca, then aged 34, would eventually plead guilty to the charge and would later be sentenced by Mr Justice Treacy to a minimum of 14 years in May 2017. Judge Mr Justice Treacy told Belfast Crown Court, how, motivated by jealousy, Koca – who claimed he had stabbed Eamonn Jr.