Nevin returns to centre stage with murder appeal

DOUBT is the enemy of conviction and it is a foe Catherine Nevin needs as a friend next week when she tries to overturn the guilty verdict and life sentence imposed on her for the murder of her husband Tom.

Unless her legal team can convince the Court of Criminal Appeal there are doubts about the fairness of the trial that convicted her, Mrs Nevin will soon mark her third year behind bars under a sentence that could run to 2012.

The jury who found her guilty of murder and three charges of soliciting men to kill Tom displayed little ambivalence when they returned to the courtroom on the evening of April 11, 2000, to deliver their decision.