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"After stepping off a bus from Dublin, civil servant Una Lynskey disappeared less than half-a-mile from her home on Porterstown Lane in Ratoath, Co Meath on October 12th, 1971.
Her body was discovered two months later near Tibradden in the Dublin Mountains in an advanced state of decomposition. The cause of her death has never been determined.
Martin Conmey and his friend Dick Donnelly were convicted of Lynskey’s manslaughter in July 1972. A third man, Martin Kerrigan, who was also suspected of having been involved in Ms Lynskey’s death, was abducted by and killed by Una Lynskey’s brothers Sean and James Lynskey and her cousin John Gaughan nine days after her body was discovered.
Mr Donnelly won his appeal against his conviction in 1973 but Mr Conmey’s conviction was upheld and he served years in jail.
In November 2010 the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the conviction after finding that early statements taken from witnesses Martin Madden and Sean Reilly - which tended to favour Mr Conmey – were not disclosed to the defence and were “radically inconsistent” with later statements of the same witnesses and evidence given at the trial."
Here is more info on the case:
A community that never healed after the gravest of injustices
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Her body was discovered two months later near Tibradden in the Dublin Mountains in an advanced state of decomposition. The cause of her death has never been determined.
Martin Conmey and his friend Dick Donnelly were convicted of Lynskey’s manslaughter in July 1972. A third man, Martin Kerrigan, who was also suspected of having been involved in Ms Lynskey’s death, was abducted by and killed by Una Lynskey’s brothers Sean and James Lynskey and her cousin John Gaughan nine days after her body was discovered.
Mr Donnelly won his appeal against his conviction in 1973 but Mr Conmey’s conviction was upheld and he served years in jail.
In November 2010 the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the conviction after finding that early statements taken from witnesses Martin Madden and Sean Reilly - which tended to favour Mr Conmey – were not disclosed to the defence and were “radically inconsistent” with later statements of the same witnesses and evidence given at the trial."
Here is more info on the case:
A community that never healed after the gravest of injustices
Sisters seek justice in murder case that led to youth's grisly execution - Independent.ie
Why there's no peace at the heart of an Irish 'Making A Murderer' - Independent.ie