Keith O’Neill fails to overturn murder conviction at Court of Appeal

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Keith O’Neill failed to overturn his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal on 27 July 2022, after the court dismissed his appeal. The conviction arose from the shooting of John Wilson at his home on Cloverhill Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, on 28 September 2012.

O’Neill had been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court in May 2015 after a jury found him guilty of murder. His appeal challenged the admission of gunshot-residue evidence and the trial judge’s conduct during the proceedings.

The appeal court rejected both grounds, finding that the trial judge’s approach to the evidence was careful and well-founded and that the jury had been properly directed.