Court told of ‘world’s worst Christmas’

IT was in the words of Eamonn Lillis’s teenage daughter “the world’s worst Christmas”.

Her comment on the death of her mother, Celine Cawley in December 2008 and the subsequent arrest of her father for his wife’s murder pulled at the heartstrings of all those present in Court 19 yesterday.

The appearance of the young woman made for the most poignant and heart-rending moment of the eight-day-old trial – especially as it came via video link.