Aaron Connolly to be retried over Cameron Reilly murder after original conviction quashed
Aaron Connolly, who spent three years in prison before his conviction for murdering teenager Cameron Reilly was quashed on appeal, will be retried at the Central Criminal Court later this year.
Having quashed the now 26-year-old defendant's conviction in May, the Court of Appeal ordered that he be retried on the murder charge.
On Wednesday, Justice Paul McDermott set November 23rd as the date for Connolly's retrial before a jury at the Central Criminal Court.
A date of July 24th this year was set for management of the case.
Michael Bowman, for Connolly, told the judge that his client's first trial lasted three weeks but said the retrial would go into a fourth week.
The Court of Appeal ordered the retrial on June 4th this year, having previously found that remarks made by the judge at the original trial may have been perceived by the jury as 'disparaging' of the defence case and 'advocacy' for the prosecution.
Two days later at the Central Criminal Court, Justice McDermott agreed to...
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