Nobody should profit from taking a life

There was something unseemly about the fact that Eamonn Lillis walked away from Wheatfield Prison last April €1.3m richer after serving five years of a seven-year sentence for killing his wife, Celine Cawley, at their home in Howth, north Dublin, in December 2008.

Lillis, who bashed Celine with a brick and blamed it on an intruder, is now one of the country’s wealthiest ex-convicts.

While in prison, he thwarted an attempt by Celine’s family’s to ensure that the couple’s daughter, Georgia, inherit all her wealth rather than see him profit from her death.