On 19 March 1996, Tom Nevin was killed with a shot from a nine pellet shotgun while counting the day's takings in Jack White's pub near Brittas Bay in County Wicklow. According to his wife, Catherine, she was woken by someone pressing her face into a pillow. She said: "It was a man shouting: 'f**king jewellery, f**king kill ya'. He had a knife in his left hand. Everything in the room was coming down around." Ir £13,000 was taken from the pub, and the Nevins' car was stolen and was found abandoned in Dublin. However, the investigators soon learned that Catherine had had numerous extra marital affairs and had tried to solicit three men to kill her husband. Nevin was convicted in 2000 of her husband's murder. The case was one of the most publicised in Irish history.