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Wed 02 Feb 2010Media and the right to photograph a witness
The point of justice being administrated in public is not to indulge fascination with lurid details of certain trials, writes VINCENT BROWNE
JEAN TREACY is an exemplary citizen. She gave evidence, which must have been deeply embarrassing and humiliating for her, against her former lover who was accused of murdering his wife. She could have been unco-operative with gardaí when they interviewed her once they discovered she had had an affair with the then suspect, Eamonn Lillis. She could have failed to remember as many contrive to do in court cases and at tribunals. She could have told them nothing relevant to a case against Eamonn Lillis, thereby avoiding having to give evidence and at least the brunt of inevitable publicity.
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