Murder retrial to prolong family’s ordeal

THE family of a young beautician who was brutally raped and strangled to death four years ago yesterday expressed “disbelief and shock” at a court’s decision to overturn the conviction of the man found guilty of killing her.

Rachel Kiely, a 22-year-old beautician from Cork, was attacked while out walking her dogs in a park in October 2000.

Yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeal ruled the conviction of Ian Horgan, aged 20, of Innishmore Square, Ballincollig, Co Cork, for her rape and murder was unsafe.