O’Reilly seeks to dismiss conviction

Lawyers for wife-killer Joe O’Reilly have been asked to indicate whether evidence will be adduced relating to issues raised in his grounds of appeal, which include circumstances in which a book of evidence was left in the jury room during his 2007 trial.

O’Reilly, 40, has personally an application under section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1993 to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman said the case had “fallen into some vagueness from a procedural point of view” and the court had directed O’Reilly’s attendance so the case “might be given some shape”.