MANSLAUGHTER

EAMONN LILLIS will have to wait until next week to find out how long he must spend in prison after he was found guilty last night of the manslaughter of his wife, Celine Cawley.

The 52-year-old TV advertising director is expected to be sentenced for the unlawful killing of the former Bond girl and model at the Central Criminal Court next Thursday after trial judge Mr Justice Barry White consented to Lillis being remanded on bail to allow him “put his affairs in order”.

In a dramatic conclusion to a trial that has dominated news headlines over the past three weeks, the jury found Lillis guilty of manslaughter by a 10-2 majority verdict on the basis that the state had failed to prove that he had intended to kill or seriously injure his wife.