Detective believed accused tried to burn body

A DETECTIVE investigating the killing of Robert Holohan believes that Wayne O’Donoghue tried to set fire to the body of the schoolboy sometime after he dumped the remains.

“I think you went out there with the petrol to set fire to the body,” Detective Garda Sean O’Brien of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation said to the accused during a videotaped interview.

The accused replied that the detective was entitled to his opinion but that he did not.