When John Reilly died, the collector, Tom Munnelly decided that any proceeds from the recordings should go to a school for Traveller children. Peter Kennedy acquired a copy of the recordings and put them in his catalogue, and despite requests to either remove them or pay the Traveller school, he continued to sell them without payment or permission right up to his death.

Then clearly that is wrong. But it isn't what you wrote - which was:

He [John Reilly] was posthumously given the dubious honour of becoming one of Peter Kennedy's victims.

Dave Eyre