"Eleven years on from when the bodies of two missing Dublin men were found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the midlands, the only person to face trial over their deaths - Ruth Lawrence - has been found guilty of their murders. The jury, by a majority verdict of 11-1, agreed with the prosecution case that 46-year-old Lawrence shot and worked "as a unit" with her boyfriend, South African national Neville van der Westhuizen,"
"to murder drug dealer Eoin O'Connor (32), after they had lured him to their home. The prosecution contended that Anthony Keegan (33) was shot by van der Westhuizen and the jury, by a majority verdict of 10-2, accepted the argument that there was evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that he and Lawrence also acted as a team in that murder and were equally liable for the outcome."
Eleven years after the bodies of two missing Dublin men were found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the midlands, Ruth Lawrence has been found guilty of their murders. One victim, Eoin O'Connor (32), was lured to Lawrence's home and, according to the prosecution, was shot after she and her boyfriend acted "as a unit." The prosecution contended Anthony Keegan (33) was shot by Neville van der Westhuizen. The jury convicted Lawrence of O'Connor's murder by an 11-1 majority and found her equally liable for Keegan's killing by a 10-2 majority.
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