The jury in the trial of a Waterford man accused of murdering his wife have been watching a video timeline of the days surrounding his wife’s disappearance.
The body of Meg Walsh (35) body was recovered from the River Suir on October 15th 2006, after being missing for two weeks. She had died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Bus driver, Mr O’Brien (41) with an address in Ballinakill Downs, Co Waterford, denies murdering Meg Walsh (35) on a date between October 1st, 2006, and October 15th, 2006.
Mr Ian McArthur, a CCTV expert, told the court that gardaí used over 20 separate distinguishing features to identify both Ms Walsh’s silver Mitsubishi Charisma and Mr O’Brien’s Mazda 323.
At 12.52am on Monday, October 2nd, a silver Charisma is seen heading away from the quays. At 10.03 that evening, a silver Charisma is seen parking in the car park of the Uluru Pub.
The jury have already heard that this car was found by gardaí two days later and was found to be covered in Ms Walsh’s blood.
Mr McArthur agreed with defence counsel Mr Paddy McCarthy that it was not possible to see the face of the driver or the licence plate of a vehicle in this footage, and that it was only possible to say that the car was a Mitsubishi Charisma.