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Aaron Connolly at the Central Criminal Court. Photo: Collins Courts
Aaron Connolly, who has spent over three years serving a life sentence for the murder of teenager Cameron Reilly, has had his conviction quashed after the Court of Appeal found that the trial judge’s instructions to the jury lacked balance and in parts may have been seen as “advocacy” for the prosecution case.
Mr Justice John Edwards said on Monday that “such were the stridency and emphasis” of comments made by Mr Justice Tony Hunt while he charged the jury, “there is a real possibility the jury could have perceived that he was personally convinced of the guilt of the accused and that implicitly he was pressing them to deliver a guilty verdict”.