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A woman accused of impeding the investigation into her mother’s alleged murder denied to gardaí that she had left their house on the night of the killing to get “permanent peace”.
The deceased’s daughter Louise O’Connor and granddaughter Stephanie O’Connor , both of Millmount Court, Dundrum Road, Dublin 14, and Louise O’Connor’s ex-partner Keith Johnston , of Avonbeg Gardens,, Dublin 24 are all charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of Kieran Greene, knowing or believing him to have committed an arrestable offence, to wit the murder of Patricia O’Connor on May 29th, 2017. They deny the charges.
In her fourth interview, Louise O’Connor told gardaí that the person seen closing the back door on May 29th at 10.06pm could have been herself or her daughter Stephanie O’Connor or Mr Greene. “I’m guessing it was one of us as we were the only ones in the house,” she said, adding that all she could see in the CCTV footage was a white blur.
Louise O’Connor was previously shown a clip from her neighbour’s CCTV footage on May 29th at 9.34pm, which she said looked like her mother walking out of the house and carrying a suitcase. She previously told gardaí that she had followed her mother out of the house after hearing the door slam and saw her mother going down the road.
Asked by interviewing detectives why her then partner was seen on CCTV footage closing the curtains at 6.52pm, when she and her children left the house to go to the park, the mother-of-five replied: “Why you asking me, maybe he is dancing around naked after the shower”. CCTV footage showed a car reversing into the driveway on the morning of May 30th at 5.54am. Louise O’Connor said she thought this was Mr Greene in the CCTV footage saying: “That’s obviously when he took my ma and came back. That’s not a nice thing to see, that’s f**king horrible.
Gardaí put it to her that this was “a web of lies”. “I know what I saw and heard,” she replied, adding that she did not find out what happened her mother until two weeks later. In her first interview that day, Stephanie O’Connor told gardaí that she had been trying to find a job since she left school and helped with the children around the house. She said that her family never come in the back door of the house, they always use the front door. She said she did not know whose idea it was to go to the park on the evening of May 29th.
In her third interview, Stephanie said she was aware her neighbour’s CCTV camera covered their front and back garden. Stephanie identified her grandmother wearing a dress with a pattern on it in CCTV footage taken on May 29th, which she described as looking like “peacock feathers”. She called her grandmother “plump” but explained that she had a lot of muscle saying: “She does gardening so is well able”.Gardaí asked Stephanie if they would normally go to the park at that time in the evening.
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