Judge recalls jury over clarifications

THE judge in the trial of Eamonn Lillis for the murder of his wife, Celine Cawley, said he held neither a sword for the prosecution nor a shield for the defence.

“I hope you don’t think otherwise and that my charge was directed toward securing a particular verdict. It was not,” Mr Justice Barry White said after recalling them.

“There are certain matters where I was wrong,” he said. He explained that instead of saying that Detective Sergeant Brian Cloone had no significant blood on him after giving Ms Cawley CPR, he should have said that he had no blood on him.