Evil killer Joe O'Reilly spent a day outside prison for the first time since his conviction, we can reveal. He became unwell in prison last January and was taken to Tullamore Hospital for tests accompanied by a team of prison officers. It is understood that he was not kept in overnight as doctors were able to treat him.
This was the first time the notorious killer was let out of jail after being given a life sentence in 2007 for the murder of his beautiful young wife Rachel at their home in Naul, Co Dublin, three years earlier. She was bludgeoned to death in what her husband thought was the perfect murder. He was having an affair at the time - but his mobile phone put him at the murder scene and the jury at the Central Criminal Court didn't believe his side of the story.
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This is normal practice." The 52 year old brutal killer has never admitted to the murder and was recently told by parole officers that he.