Eoin O’Connor and Anthony Keegan’s bodies were found on Lough Sheelin over 10 years ago.
The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering two men before dumping their bodies on a small island in the Midlands has heard one of them had three gunshot wounds.
45-year-old Ruth Lawrence, from Clontarf in Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Eoin O'Connor and Anthony Keegan over 10 years ago.
Eoin O’Connor and Anthony Keegan’s bodies were found wrapped in tarpaulin on an island on Lough Sheelin almost one month after they were reported missing.
It is the prosecution’s case that they were murdered over a drug debt owed to Mr O’Connor by Ruth Lawrence’s boyfriend, Neville Van der Westhuizen.
Yesterday, the jurors heard Mr Keegan died from gunshot wounds to the head and neck.
Today, retired State Pathologist, Prof. Marie Cassidy, gave evidence of the post mortem she carried out on Mr O’Connor.
She identified three gunshot wounds to the head, abdomen and left hand.
She said she also noted injuries to the mouth and jaw that could have been as a result of forceful blows to the face.
As a result of the shot to the head, she said he suffered a brain injury that would have caused immediate collapse and very rapid death thereafter.
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