A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of Cameron Reilly, the teenager who was found dead in a field in Dunleer, County Louth in May 2018.
The Central Criminal Court jury of seven women and five men returned a unanimous verdict on Thursday afternoon on what was their third day of deliberations in the case.
READ MORE: Cameron Reilly told friends he was bisexual and on Grindr shortly before his death - trial hears he was on the site to 'suss people out' During the trial, the court heard that in his initial statement to gardaí, Connolly said he and Mr Reilly went in different directions at the end of the night and after the pair parted near to the Beechwood housing estate in Dunleer, he “never looked back” to see which way Cameron went.
In his garda interviews, Connolly said he could not remember what he was doing during a “missing hour” on the night Cameron Reilly died violently as he had taken a combination of drugs that made him black out.Connolly told investigating officers he had taken two grammes of cocaine and half a gramme of MDMA.
The murder trial also heard evidence from Jack Conway, who said he and Aaron Connolly had sexual relations on a number of occasions when they were teenagers. He told prosecution counsel that he and the accused went on to have about 20 sexual encounters subsequently.
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