Wayne was always there for me, says girlfriend

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.

This was the teenage girl the accused spent much of his time with - whom he was helping to draw up a Leaving Cert study timetable and the one person he had requested permission to speak with after he made his confessional statement and before he was arrested by gardaí.

It was Rebecca that Wayne expressly went to see on the night of Robert’s death as he thought it would be the “last time” before his planned suicide.