Conviction for ‘slurry pit’ killing upheld

A mother-of-four has failed in her appeal against her conviction and 10-year sentence for killing an English new age traveller and submerging his body in a slurry pit.

The Court of Criminal Appeal found it was “by no means convinced” that the conviction of Una Geaney, aged 47, for the “astonishing and ghoulish” manslaughter of Gary Bull in West Cork six years ago was either unsafe or unsatisfactory.

In Jul 2011, Geaney was jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney after she was found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Gary Bull on Sept 23, 2007.