Aaron Connolly Cameron Reilly

2022 - 12 - 15

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Aaron Connolly found guilty of murder of teenager Cameron Reilly (The Irish Times)

Mr Reilly (18) was found dead in a field in Dunleer, Co Louth in 2018.

Mr Bowman said that there had been sexual contact between Connolly and Mr Reilly on the night of the murder. He said lies are the subject of “grey areas” but science tells the truth. He said people had lied about drug and alcohol use in a murder trial because they were afraid. This was the cause of death,” she said. The reason I don’t remember is I was taking drugs.” The deceased’s best friend told the court Mr Reilly never took drugs.

Man found guilty of murdering Cameron Reilly (RTE.ie)

Aaron Connolly of Willistown, Drumcar, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of the 18-year-old at Shamrock Hill, Dunleer on 26 May 2018. The jury returned a ...

The jury was told that Connolly’s DNA was found on the body of Mr Reilly. Prosecuting counsel Dean Kelly said Connolly had lied from the beginning of the investigation to the end. The jury was told he had died violently.

Cameron Reilly murder: County Louth man found guilty (BBC News)

A jury finds Aaron Connolly, 23, guilty after more than 10 hours of deliberation.

The jury was also told that Connolly's DNA was found on the body of Mr Reilly. The jury was told that Mr Reilly suffered a violent death, the cause of which was asphyxiation from pressure to his neck. The prosecution said Connolly was among the group and that he returned to the field with Mr Reilly.

Video: Tributes to Private Seán Rooney; Aaron Connolly guilty of ... (BreakingNews.ie)

Irish soldier killed in Lebanon named as Private Seán Rooney (23). A member of Óglaigh na hÉireann, the Irish Defence Forces, was killed while carrying out UN ...

The court heard she was pregnant at the time of her hearing. [young mother](https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/young-mother-found-with-tesco-bag-containing-e240000-in-drugs-again-avoids-jail-1406387.html) who admitted having a shopping bag containing over €240,000 in drugs has again avoided jail, even after the Court of Appeal found that her original fully-suspended sentence was too lenient. [murder of Cameron Reilly](https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/aaron-connolly-guilty-of-murder-of-student-cameron-reilly-in-co-louth-1406351.html), the teenager who was found dead in a field in Dunleer, County Louth in May 2018. Kirsty Cummins was a teenager when she was found with a Tesco bag containing over €240,000 worth of cocaine and heroin and received a fully suspended four-year sentence in June 2021 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The Central Criminal Court jury of seven women and five men returned a unanimous verdict on Thursday afternoon on what was their third day of deliberations in the case. [ Seán Rooney](https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/member-of-irish-defence-forces-killed-in-lebanon-1405993.html) (23), from Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal, was involved in a "serious incident" at approximately 9.15pm Irish time, when two-vehicle convoy carrying members of the 121st Infantry Battalion — United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon, or UNIFIL — came under "small arms fire" in al-Aqbieh, southern Lebanon.

Aaron Connolly found guilty of the murder of teenager Cameron ... (Irish Mirror)

The Central Criminal Court jury of seven women and five men returned their verdict this afternoon on what was their third day of deliberations in the case.

Mr Bowman told the jury: "The law says the mere fact that the defendant lies is not evidence enough. He said people had lied about drug and alcohol use in a murder trial because they were afraid. He said lies are the subject of “grey areas” but science tells the truth. The murder trial also heard evidence from Jack Conway, who said he and Aaron Connolly had sexual relations on a number of occasions when they were teenagers. “All of these features are in keeping with the application of external pressure on the neck. The group then went to a local takeaway to get food shortly after midnight before moving away at 12.40am.

Man found guilty of murdering Cameron Reilly in Co. Louth (LMFM)

Aaron Connolly (22) of Willistown, Drumcar had denied murdering the teenager in 2018.

Mr. The court heard that Mr. Reilly and Mr.

'Cameron Reilly said goodbye to his grandmother and never made it ... (Irish Mirror)

Detective Superintendent John O'Flaherty said gardaí only ever had one suspect in the case: Aaron Connolly.

He said everything Aaron Connolly had said, from the moment he and Cameron Reilly left the rest of the group, was “self-serving nonsense”. The young man said he and Mr Connolly were again intimate when they met in a field “a while after”. He pointed out that many of the young people on the night had lied for one reason or another. She said that an examination of the inside front of the tracksuit bottoms worn by Mr Connolly showed a mixed DNA sample of Mr Reilly and Mr Connolly. She said the alcohol was being actively metabolised at the time of death. She said the cause of death was asphyxia due to external pressure on the neck with no other contributing factors. He said the teenager was lying on his back and there was “discolouring and bruising” on the right-hand side of the face, neck and throat. In his initial statement to gardaí, Connolly said he had been drunk on the night but “knew what I was at”. Connolly did not accept that it was his DNA and said that the forensic report was wrong. She told prosecuting counsel Mr Kelly that on the night of May 25 she went to meet Cameron and a group of other friends at the field at around 7.30pm-8pm. “All of these features are in keeping with the application of external pressure on the neck. Ms McGuinness said the teenager had told her he was just on the site to “suss people out” because there would often be gossip about people locally who were “in the closet”.