What the jury in the Quirke case didn’t hear in court

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Quirke had secret recordings of himself being ‘intimate’ with former girlfriend Mary Lowry

The jury in the Patrick Quirke trial did not hear evidence that the accused had secret audio recordings of him being “intimate” with his former girlfriend Mary Lowry and that his computer was used to look up articles on notorious Irish murderers including Joe O’Reilly.

Ms Lowry helped gardaí identify the voices on the recordings and said at least one was a conversation between Quirke and his wife Imelda. The defence team did not want the jury to hear any of the recordings, including that with Mr Cantillon, because they said it would lead the jury to speculate as to how those files ended up on Quirke’s computer.

The jury also did not find out that Quirke’s computer had been used to search for notorious Irish wife murderer O’Reilly. Gardaí believe that Quirke was looking for information on how to get away with murder and the potential traps that could catch a murderer out. This tied in with other articles Quirke had viewed such as “The limits of DNA Evidence” and multiple articles on the decomposition of bodies.

 

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