Court holds its breath as mother tells killer of her family’s ‘living hell’

IN the eight days when her son was missing, Majella Holohan quietly suffered the horrors of imagination.

Where was Robert, what was being done to her beautiful 11-year-old boy?

In the 10 days of the trial, her words were governed by the rules of the courtroom, strictly tempered by the parameters laid down by the State to give Wayne O'Donoghue, her son's killer, a fair trial.