Drug debts and buried bodies: the trial of Ruth Lawrence for double murder
Eleven years after the bodies of Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O’Connor (32) were discovered buried on Inchicup Island, Dublin woman Ruth Lawrence (45) has gone on trial for their murder. She has pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution has laid out its case: alleging that Lawrence worked “as a unit” with her South African boyfriend Neville van der Westhuizen to kill O’Connor, a drug dealer and his friend Keegan.
Van der Westhuizen was in considerable debt to O’Connor.
It was further alleged that Lawrence and her boyfriend had “spoken openly” about “the murders and disposing of the bodies”.
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