'The Plan': how two lovers came to throw a pensioner's body off Ireland's tallest cliffs

At the Central Criminal Court, Alan Vial and Nikita Burns have been convicted of the murder of Robert Wilkin, a 66-year-old man whose body was disposed of at Sliabh Liag in County Donegal in June 2023. Following an altercation on the Roshine Road near Killybegs, the accused struck Mr Wilkin with a rock before transporting his body to the clifftop and casting it into the Atlantic Ocean. The pair subsequently stole…