5 YEARS: The time Eamonn Lillis is likely to spend in prison for killing his wife

THERE was growing anger among victims’ rights groups last night after it emerged convicted wife killer Eamonn Lillis could walk free from prison as early as 2015.

The 52-year-old spent the first night of his six years and 11 months sentence in Wheatfield Prison after he was given the jail term yesterday following his conviction for the manslaughter of his wife Celine Cawley.

In the Central Criminal Court Mr Justice Barry White said Lillis’s expression of remorse had rang hollow, and that he was satisfied that he could take the lies, deceit and the cover-up of the advertising producer into account in determining the sentence.