Man convicted in 1998 murder

By Adrienne P. Samuels, Globe Staff

A pizza delivery man serving a life sentence for killing a Norwood man received a second life term Wednesday, after a Norfolk Superior Court jury found him guilty of premeditated and extremely atrocious murder in the death of an elderly woman in a Walpole park.

A jury found Martin Guy, 44, guilty in the 1998 bludgeoning and stabbing death of Irene Kennedy, 75, of Foxborough, a killing for which the wrong man was initially held before being freed by DNA evidence. Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating said he hopes the conviction takes the heat off of Edmund F. Burke, who was held for 41 days in the crime.

‘‘It is my hope that this will bring some measure of release for the Kennedy family,’’ Keating said. ‘‘But it is also my fervent hope that this conviction will make clear to any who still doubt that Ed Burke did not murder Irene Kennedy.’’

Guy’s Milton-based lawyer, Robert Jubinville, said he plans to appeal. ‘‘I certainly think that the evidence that was raised at the trial certainly suggested a reasonable doubt,’’ Jubinville said.

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