Nathan Killeen discharged after 2008 murder charge withdrawn

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Nathan Killeen was discharged after the State entered a nolle prosequi on a murder charge at the Special Criminal Court on 4 November 2014. The charge concerned the death of James Cronin, whose body was found near Ballinacura Weston in April 2008.

The court accepted the State’s decision not to proceed with the charge and discharged Killeen. The charge alleged that he murdered Mr Cronin between 5 and 7 April 2008 at a place unknown within the State.

Killeen was serving a life sentence for the separate murder of Roy Collins, imposed in July 2014.