“When her carers came in, they always had a laugh and a chat together. And yet she was never negative, she was still as bright as a button,” said Andrew. “Since last November Pat had lost her total mobility and she was wrestling with quite a lot of pain. She previously suffered a stroke.įor the past few months she had been largely bed-bound, but Mr Cardy said his wife never lost a characteristic determination to make the best of life. She was a wheelchair user after losing a leg to diabetes while also suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Mrs Cardy battled ill health in her last years. We didn’t condone him but we had to forgive him.” In an interview last year, Mrs Cardy said: “This man, who was incredibly evil, we had to forgive him. Black died, aged 68, in Maghaberry jail in 2016. He was already serving life after being convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of schoolgirls Susan Maxwell (11), Caroline Hogg (5) and Sarah Harper (10) in the Borders, Edinburgh and Leeds.
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The family had to wait 30 years before Black faced a trial and was found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering Jennifer in 2011. Her body was found nearly a week later at a dam near Hillsborough, Co Down. Mrs Cardy was the mother of Jennifer who was just nine when she was abducted while making her way to a friend’s house in Ballinderry, Co Antrim, on August 12, 1981. “I always said that our daughter would be the first person that she would see there, that Jennifer would be the first person she would be looking for.” “It’s a great comfort to think that she is in Heaven with Jennifer,” her husband told the Belfast Telegraph. Mrs Cardy is survived by husband Andy and children Mark, Phillip and Victoria. She will be buried at Portmore Cemetery in Lower Ballinderry. She was 73.Ī service of thanksgiving will be held in Hillsborough Elim Church, also known as the Hope Church, on the Moira Road in Hillsborough on Thursday,
Mrs Cardy, who wrote a book about her daughter Jennifer’s 1981 murder, passed away at Craigavon Area Hospital on Friday.
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A service of thanksgiving will be held this week to remember Pat Cardy, the mother of a young girl murdered by serial killer Robert Black.