Wife-killer O’Reilly loses appeal bid

Joe O’Reilly’s bid to have his conviction for murdering his wife declared a miscarriage of justice has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal prior to full hearing.

The Director of Public Prosecutions had sought to dismiss the 42-year-old’s application as an “abuse of process” and the three-judge Court of Appeal agreed in a judgment delivered yesterday.

In July 2007, O’Reilly was found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin.