Mr Nevill was giving evidence on the fifth day of the trial of Martin Earley at the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Castlebar, into the death of Sandra Collins, Courthouse St, Killala, at a place and date unknown on or about December 4, 2000. The 49-year-old construction worker denies the charge.
It emerged earlier in the trial that Ms Collins was pregnant and had been in contact with a UK abortion service about a termination.
On December 9, 2000, four days after Sandra went missing, a pink fleece belonging to her was found on Killala Pier.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/murder-trial-told-of-abortion-lsquoprice-listrsquo-268490.html
A man who denies murdering a 29-year-old Mayo woman in December 2000 admitted to a special team of Garda investigators more than six months later that he had sex with her twice, the Central Criminal Court was told yesterday.
In a statement taken by the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation on June 28, 2001, construction worker Martin Earley, of Banagher, Carrowmore Lacken, Ballina, explained he had been in a relationship with Sandra Collins, of Courthouse St, Killala, in the weeks before she vanished.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan...tted-having-sex-with-victim-twice-269358.html
The second week of the Sandra Collins murder trial in Castlebar was delayed by three days of legal argument between counsel for the prosecution and the defence in the absence of the jury.
Only one day of new evidence was heard during the second week of the trial before the jury was asked to be excused late on Tuesday while legal matters were discussed between the two legal teams. At the beginning of the court on Wednesday morning the jury was advised by Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy that the legal argument would take longer than expected. He asked the jury to return on Friday morning.
However, after two days of argument it became apparent on Thursday afternoon that the matters would not resolved by Friday, and Judge McCarthy asked that the jury be informed that they would not be needed until Tuesday (today). Details of the legal argument for this cannot be reported by the media.
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?op...-collins-murder-trial&catid=23:news&Itemid=46
Sandra Collins fell into the water off Killala pier when arguing with Martin Earley, a witness told the murder trial in the Central Criminal Court in Castlebar. The court sat from Tuesday to Friday last week, the third week of the trial.
Martin Earley of Bannagher, Carrmore-Lacken, Ballina, is accused of the murder of Sandra Collins, who went missing on December 4, 2000. She was last seen in a takeaway in Killala. Mr Earley denies the charge.
The sitting of the court before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy heard evidence given by Michael Granahan who revealed that Mr Earley told him of the events of December 4, 2000, after he allowed him to stay in his home in March 2011.
He said that Mr Earley told him that he had met Ms Collins in Killala on the night she went missing and that they had argued before she fell into the water.
http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?op...-into-sea-court-hears&catid=23:news&Itemid=46
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