O’Reilly laid trail for experts to unravel

WIFE-KILLER Joe O’Reilly was a little too smart in creating alibis to cover his tracks on the day he murdered his wife.

By deliberately making up appointments away from the north county Dublin home he shared with Rachel and sending texts to her phone when she was already dead, he unwittingly laid the trail for technical experts to unravel.

Now retired assistant commissioner Martin Donnellan, who oversaw the case, stressed the importance of the mobile phone evidence which used records of transmissions to and from O’Reilly’s handset to prove he was not where he said he was on the morning Rachel died.