Ruth Lawrence found guilty of double murder in 2014

The Central Criminal Court jury by a majority verdict of 11-1 agreed with the prosecution case that Lawrence shot and worked 'as a unit' with her boyfriend to murder 32-year-old drug dealer Eoin O'Connor after they had lured him to their home
Ruth Lawrence found guilty of double murder in 2014

Ruth Lawrence (pictured) has been found guilty of murdering Anthony Keegan and Eoin O'Connor. File picture: Collins Courts

Eleven years on from when the bodies of two missing Dublin men were found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the Midlands, the only person to face trial over their deaths — Ruth Lawrence — has been found guilty of their murders.

The Central Criminal Court jury by a majority verdict of 11-1 agreed with the prosecution case that 46-year-old Lawrence shot and worked "as a unit" with her boyfriend, South African national Neville van der Westhuizen, to murder 32-year-old drug dealer Eoin O'Connor after they had lured him to their home.

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