MURDER accused Joe O’Reilly admitted to gardaí that he had possession of the mobile phone that placed him close to the scene where his wife Rachel was battered to death.

THE colleague Joe O’Reilly told gardaí was his main alibi for the morning his wife was murdered was miles away from him during a one-hour period critical to the investigation, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Phone analysis places the mobile of Joe O'Reilly's co-worker in the vicinity of the Broadstone bus garage on the morning of the murder and is consistent with the account he gave gardaí.

Joe O’ Reilly told gardaí that he had an affair but that it was over by the time his wife Rachel was found murdered at the family home in north Dublin, a jury heard today.