O'Reilly's begging letter found in wife's coffin

The fight for justice for Rachel O’Reilly started on Monday June 25, with Denis Vaughan Buckley SC for the prosecution telling a packed courtroom at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court that though much of the evidence was circumstantial, it would, in its entirety, prove beyond reasonable doubt that Joe O’ Reilly killed his wife.

Rachel died as a result of blunt force trauma and the inhalation of blood after receiving four blows to the head. The weapon has never been recovered.