Mother hits out at appeals by wife-killer

The mother of Rachel O’Reilly has criticised the law for allowing her daughter’s killer repeated chances to challenge his conviction.

Rose Callaly said she faced a “daily battle” to live with the death of Rachel at the hands of her husband Joe in 2004, and not knowing when he would next get another attempt at freedom was adding to her stress.

“If you allow for one or two appeals, that should be it. I can’t really get my head around how there can be appeal after appeal after appeal. It just doesn’t make sense to me.”