BALLINASLOE CONVICTED MURDERER LOSES BID TO GO TO THE SUPREME COURT

Date Published: 27-May-2009

A County Galway man has lost his bid to have his challenge to his conviction for the murder of an elderly woman in 1981, heard at the Supreme Court.In February last year the Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed 55 year old Michael Joseph Kelly's appeal against his conviction for the murder of 87-year-old Margaret Glynn.The 55 year old from Ballinasloe was found guilty in 1983 of murdering the 87 year old at her home in Ballinkore Bridge in Galway in November 1981.