WAYNE O’DONOGHUE was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of 11-year-old Robert Holohan yesterday, on the 10th day of the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

AT THE Central Criminal Court yesterday, Mr Justice Paul Carney read aloud transcripts of testimony given by about 40 witnesses in the trial.

ON the first day of the trial, Wayne O’Donoghue nervously held rosary beads between his fingers, and as the jury came back into court yesterday to give their verdict, he blessed himself.

Wayne O’Donoghue was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of eleven-year-old Robert Holohan today on the tenth day of the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

AT first glance, it could have been a college lecture theatre with its tiered public benches occupied predominantly by spectators in their early 20s - but there the similarity ends.

The following is a transcript of the evidence of Rebecca Dennehy, girlfriend of Wayne O'Donoghue.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE left flowers at the scene on the day Robert Holohan’s body was found and he stopped to say a prayer.

THERE wasn’t a sound in Courtroom Number Two yesterday when counsel for the prosecution called to the stand Wayne O’Donoghue’s girlfriend, Rebecca Dennehy, who had been mentioned repeatedly this week during evidence at the Robert Holohan murder trial.

Wayne O’Donoghue's girlfriend gave evidence today at the Central Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of Robert Holohan.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE broke down in tears yesterday as details of his fatal encounter with Robert Houlihan were described in Courtroom Number Two.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE looked into his bathroom mirror with a knife held to his throat as 11-year-old Robert Holohan lay dead on the floor.