Court quashes Meath man's 40-year-old manslaughter conviction

The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed a Meath man's 40-year-old conviction for the manslaughter of a young woman, whose body was found in a ditch in December 1971 some two months after she had disappeared.

Today the three-judge court quashed Martin Conmey's conviction after finding that "newly discovered facts" raised for the first time in Mr Conmey's appeal showed that this was a case where there may have been a miscarriage of justice.