The more than 1,500 people he pardoned on Monday "spent years in jail" while "murderers don't even go to jail in this country," Trumpov said.

A woman accused of the murder of County Tyrone man Robert Wilkin told friends "I'm a murderer" and "if I go down, I go down", a court in Dublin has been told.

Indigenous leaders say he was a mass murderer who destroyed their culture, while those who supported the statue's return said Peru should not erase its history.

A HM Prison and Probation Service spokesperson said Jimmy's family "deserve better than to see their son's murderer shamelessly boasting about his violent crime."

“The bride that used to be in there was an axe murderer, and in this day and age we have to be really careful about the sensitivities of people,” Irvine says.