BALLINASLOE MAN LOSES APPEAL AGAINST MURDER CONVICTION
Date Published: 01-Feb-2008
A County Galway man who claims he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice has lost his challenge to his conviction for the murder of an elderly woman in 1981.54 year-old Michael Joseph Kelly from Ballinasloe has always denied murdering 87 year-old Margeret Glynn at her home in Ballinmore Bridge.But the three Judge Court of Criminal Appeal today dismissed his challenge stating that he had not raised any doubts as to the safety of the conviction.