{"id":72944,"date":"2025-10-11T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:44:14","slug":"murder-accused-ruth-lawrence-asked-about-taking-boat-out-on-lough-sheelin-where-bodies-of-two-men-were-eventually-found-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72944\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder accused Ruth Lawrence asked about taking boat out on Lough Sheelin where bodies of two men were eventually found, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of two men\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/81201119-a6a4-4ed5-a66b-ea29b14a2b7f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of two men<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A woman who is accused of murdering two men asked about taking a boat out on Lough Sheelin, Co Cavan \u2013 where the men\u2019s bodies were eventually found \u2013 the day before the men were last seen alive, a witness has told the Central Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The trial also heard today that the accused, Ruth Lawrence, later borrowed an electric engine from her landlord, having told him that her boyfriend \u2013 South African national Neville van der Westhuizen \u2013 had a bad back and \u201cwouldn&#8217;t be able for much rowing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruth Lawrence is charged with the murder of two men A woman who is accused of murdering two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-72944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}