SCIENTIST GIVES EVIDENCE AT GALWAY MANS APPEAL OF MURDER CONVICTION

Date Published: 18-Jan-2008

A Scientist who analysed statements of a confession allegedly made by a Galway man about a murder over 20 years ago says they were the work of more than one person.Dr. Michael George Farringdon made the claim in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday where Ballinasloe man Michael Joseph Kelly is appealing his conviction for murdering 87-year-old Margaret Glynn in 1983.Today's Irish Times reports that the court heard yesterday that Dr Farrington analysed the statements using a method of analyses known as the QSUM method.Dr Farringdon told counsel that he concluded the alleged confession was the work of more than one person by comparing the language then used by Kelly to a transcript of what he had said at his trial in1983. Fifty Four year old Michael Joesph Kelly has always denied murdering Mrs Glynn, which he was convicted of and sentenced to life in prison.He was released on license over a decade ago