The jury in the Patrick Quirke trial did not hear evidence that the accused had secret audio recordings of him being "intimate" with Mary Lowry.The recordings were ruled as inadmissible after his defence team argued they would suggest to the jury that he had "strange sexual proclivities" and could prejudice them against him.
Mary Lowry helped gardai identify the voices on the recordings and said at least one was a conversation between Mr Quirke and his wife Imelda.Only one recording was played to the jury, that of a conversation between Mary Lowry and her boyfriend Flor Canitllon, whom she met almost a year after Bobby Ryan went missing.
Prosecution counsel Michael Bowman SC fought hard to have them included, telling Justice Creedon that they were "not scandalous, but intimate". Det Gda Fitzpatrick also found evidence that Mr Quirke was looking up articles on Siobhan Kearney, who was murdered by her husband Brian in February 2006, and Jo Jo Dollard, who went missing in 1995.
The defence pointed out that these murders were famous and many people in Ireland would have searched for information relating to them over the years.
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