Records place O’Reilly miles from alibi

THE colleague Joe O’Reilly told gardaí was his main alibi for the morning his wife was murdered was miles away from him during a one-hour period critical to the investigation, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Data from phone masts show that the mobile phone owned by Derek Quearney, who worked with O’Reilly at the Viacom outdoor advertising firm, was used in Dublin city on the morning of the murder, at a time when records place the mobile phone owned by the accused near the O’Reilly home in north Co Dublin.

O’Reilly, aged 35, is on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Rachel, aged 30, at the family home at Lambay View, Baldarragh, The Naul, Co Dublin, on October 4, 2004. He denies the charge.