Husband of Meg fails to get her jewellery

MURDER victim Meg Walsh’s husband John O’Brien, who was last year cleared of killing her, failed in court yesterday to secure jewellery belonging to his dead wife.

Bus Éireann driver Mr O’Brien, aged 42, appealed to the court to try to force gardaí into giving him back Meg’s gold necklace – found on her dead body in a Waterford river two-and-a-half years ago.

A gold chain and a blood- soaked ring, found on Meg’s naked and lifeless body by passers-by at Meagher’s Quay on October 15, 2006, are among possessions sought by him.