Husband denies leaving Meg’s car in city car park

JOHN O’Brien told the court that he used his wife’s silver Mitsubishi Carisma on several occasions and had frequently put things in the boot, where his DNA was found by forensic investigators.

He said he had not been driving the car on Monday, October 2, the night it was abandoned in the Uluru carpark in Waterford city centre.

He said he had been parked in the nearby Tesco car park watching the house of Owen Walsh, the man Meg had kissed the previous night and who he thought she had left to be with. He left about 9pm.