Patrick Quirke guilty of murdering Bobby Ryan

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Patrick Quirke was found guilty of murdering Bobby Ryan on 1 May 2019. The jury returned a ten-to-two majority verdict after a 15-week trial.

Quirke was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court and pleaded not guilty to murder on 14 January 2019. His trial began that day.

On 30 April 2013, Quirke said he had found a body in a disused waste tank at Fawnagowan. He gave gardaí a voluntary cautioned statement and denied knowing how Ryan’s body came to be in the tank.

Quirke was arrested on suspicion of Ryan’s murder on 19 June 2014. When questioned about internet searches for body decomposition, he said: “My son had recently died. That's all I'm saying.”