‘I found Celine unconscious after violent row over bird food’

THE Eamonn Lillis murder trial has heard that the accused never hit his wife with a brick during a fatal row which erupted over his failure to put out food for birds.

The TV advertising producer has also claimed that he persisted in lying about a phantom intruder at their family home to gardaí because he didn’t want anyone to know that the couple had a row and caused physical injuries to each other.

Lillis, aged 52, denies the murder of his wife, Celine Cawley, at their home at Windgate Road, Howth, on December 15, 2008.