‘Unprecedented interest in Wayne’

THE lawyer for Wayne O’Donoghue said he “never saw the likes” of the media interest surrounding the release of his client.

Frank Buttimer said: “I would react by saying the level of interest which was focused on the release of Wayne O’Donoghue was unprecedented.

“And it was certainly something insofar that Wayne was concerned at the time and his family, it caused them enormous concern that events had become... well, the media circus that it had become.”