Sinéad Kelly was an Irish prostitute who was murdered in an alleged contract killing in Dublin city on 22 June 1998.
[1] Gardaí believe Kelly was lured to her death and that the murder may be linked to a drug debt she owed to a heroin dealer.
[4] Two men were arrested early into the investigation, including one man reportedly linked to a Crumlin-based crime family, but both were released without charge.
During this attack, a 28-year-old woman was stabbed with a Stanley knife on Benburb Street, a noted area for prostitution in Dublin at the time.
[6] In 2017, a Garda informant implicated an unnamed suspect in Sinéad Kelly's murder in the disappearance of Trevor Deely in Dublin in December 2000.
The act, which prohibited solicitation or importuning for purposes of prostitution as well as loitering for purposes of prostitution,[11] was criticised in the March 1999 issue of the Workers Solidarity Movement's newspaper, Workers Solidarity, which stated that the anti-soliciting laws had made Sinéad Kelly "an easy target".