Schoolgirl killer has appeal rejected

A man who raped and murdered a schoolgirl and left her to drown on a remote Connemara beach, today failed in his bid to have an appeal against his conviction heard by the Supreme Court.

The body of 17-year-old Siobhán Hynes was found at Tismeain beach, half a mile from the Co Galway home of John 'Demesne' McDonagh in the early hours of December 6, 1998.