Fallout should never be forgotten

WHEN the sentence was finally read out, Eamonn Lillis seemed to be the calmest person in the room.

Asked to stand at the beginning of Mr Justice Barry White’s 20-minute ruling, the 52-year-old seemed to have slumped to less than his full height by the time he discovered he would be spending a maximum of six years and 11 months in prison. The only signs that anything was wrong was his habit of biting at his inner lip, but for all that, he still carried the manner of a beaten man. The man who wrote scripts and apparently lived in a creative fantasy world of the imagination, will now have months and years to scribble his upcoming projects, and to turn over the greatest flight of fantasy which, ultimately, contributed to the length of his sentence.

Mr Justice White told Lillis that he was satisfied that he could take into account “the cover-up, the lies and deceit that you practiced in the immediate aftermath of your wife’s death”.