O’Donoghue pleads not guilty to murder

THE prosecution in the Robert Holohan murder trial claimed yesterday that Wayne O’Donoghue killed the schoolboy, put plastic bags over the body, threw it into a remote ditch, and later took part in the community’s search for the boy’s remains.

Opening the trial, Shane Murphy, senior counsel for the prosecution, said the jury would have to decide on whether O’Donoghue’s actions were cool, calm and collected or characterised by panic.

Wayne O’Donoghue, a 21-year-old engineering student of Ballyedmond, Midleton, was arraigned on the single count on the indictment at the Central Criminal Court in Court, namely that of murdering 11-year-old Robert Holohan in Ballyedmond,