Cork woman fails to overturn her conviction for murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley

Karen Harrington had argued that her privacy rights were breached after CCTV footage of her duplex taken from a premises that backed on to the front of her house was put before the jury

Karen Harrington (pictured) had denied the murder of Santina at her apartment at Elderwood Park, Boreenmanna Road, Cork, on July 5, 2019. File picture: Dan Linehan

Child killer Karen Harrington, who argued that her privacy rights were breached during the investigation into the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley, is to remain serving her life sentence after failing in a bid to have her conviction overturned.

Returning the judgement of the Court of Appeal on Thursday, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said that insofar as CCTV footage is concerned, the court "has stated time and again that an individual does not have an expectation of privacy while moving through public spaces".