Court hears of written notes on doomed love affair

IT could have been the outline of a plot for a Mills & Boon fictional romance but one which bore more than a passing resemblance to reality.

The trial of Eamonn Lillis for the murder of his wife, Celine Cawley heard yesterday about the contents of a note found on his bedroom locker which he described to gardaí as “a short story” about a doomed love affair.

It made reference to a woman getting married to a man called Keith the following June. Gardaí pointed out that such a description fitted Jean Treacy, a 31-year-old beauty therapist with whom Lillis was having an affair.