{"id":88245,"date":"2025-10-18T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:04:08","slug":"ruth-lawrence-trial-dreadful-smell-alerted-fisherman-to-bodies-of-murdered-men-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88245\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Lawrence trial: \u2018\u2018Dreadful smell\u2019 alerted fisherman to\u00a0bodies of\u00a0murdered men, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Bodies of Eoin O\u2019Connor and Anthony Keegan were found on Inchicup Island in May 2014\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Lawrence pictured in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Photo: South African Police Service\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d35a9982-22b7-4d2d-be06-0495cec26ea5.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 pictured in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Photo: South African Police Service<\/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)\">Pat Smith instinctively knew the foul smell he was detecting couldn\u2019t be coming from a dead animal. He was familiar with the scent of a decaying carcass from his work as a butcher, so he suspected that the odour was more sinister.<\/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)\">\u201cThere was a dreadful smell coming off the island,\u201d he told prosecuting barrister Michael O\u2019Higgins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodies of Eoin O\u2019Connor and Anthony Keegan were found on Inchicup Island in May 2014 Ruth Lawrence pictured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,48326,615,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-88245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-catherine-fegan","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88245","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=88245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}