The trial of a 35-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering his wife at their home in The Naul in Dublin has heard evidence from a friend of the victim.
Joe O'Reilly denies murdering 30-year-old Rachel O'Reilly on 4 October 2004.
Fiona Slevin gave evidence about a conversation she had with Joe O'Reilly on the day of Rachel's funeral about the murder weapon.
She said Mr O'Reilly told her, 'I don't know why they're searching the fields, it's in the water'.
She said she looked at him, shocked and Mr O'Reilly reacted as if he had said something he shouldn't have.
He then said: 'If I did it, that's where it would be - there's water all around.' She said he also said that would get rid of all the DNA.
A woman who worked with Mr O'Reilly in an outdoor advertising business said he came into the office at around midday on the day Rachel died.
She said his face and eyes looked puffy and blotchy and red. She said he looked as if he'd been crying. She said to him, 'Jesus, you look like sh*t'. And she said, he shrugged his shoulders and said, 'Ah, Jesus'.
Janette O'Neill from the Garda ballistics department said she had noted extensive injuries to Rachel O'Reilly's head, behind her right ear and to her forehead as well as bruising to her face and arms.
She said she was there when Rachel O'Reilly's body was exhumed and removed notes and cards from her body.
Detective Garda Shane Farrell, a fingerprint expert with 11 years' experience, said prints in the house at The Naul matched Rachel O'Reilly's and Joe O'Reilly's prints.
He said he was also asked to check prints against those belonging to a man called Derek Quaerney and a woman called Nikki Pelley but there was no match.
Garda Nicola Sheeran gave evidence of searching the fields around the O'Reilly home and coming across a brown leather satchel bag and a camera bag. She described them as having been placed in a drain. As the satchel was lifted out of the drain, she said a white jewellery box slipped out of the bag.
Family gives evidence at trial
This morning more members of Ms O'Reilly's family gave evidence, as well as a number of gardaí and members of the rescue services.
Rachel O'Reilly's father, Jim Callaly described speaking to Rachel's mother, Rose, who had gone out to Rachel's house and was in a 'very distressed state'. She told him she thought Rachel was dead.
He said he called an ambulance and then went out to the house and was told by someone at the scene not to go down to the bedroom. He said he felt claustrophobic and very upset and had to get out for some air.
Mr Callaly described how he and his wife wrote letters for Rachel to put into her coffin.
Rachel's brother, Paul Callaly, later gave evidence about being in the house at Lambay View around a month after Rachel's death.
He said he had a conversation with Joe O'Reilly about the quarry which was about 1km from the house.
Mr Callaly said he had a conversation with Mr O'Reilly about a camera in the quarry and asked him where the camera was.
He said that Mr O'Reilly said he was not aware there was a camera 'up there' and if he had been aware, he would have objected to it. Mr Callaly said he thought that was strange.
O'Reilly comments
Gardaí and Paramedics gave evidence about seeing Rachel's body on the floor of her bedroom at her home. Her body was described as being twisted, contorted and covered in blood, with a pool of blood under her head.
Garda Thomas Cleary said he was told to direct people out of the house and take their details.
He said that Joe O'Reilly told him he had moved a box of books beside his wife's body and had made contact with the body.
Mr Cleary said Mr O'Reilly told him: 'I'm really sorry, I'm probably after ruining it for ye'.
Garda Damien O'Connell said that on 9 October Joe O'Reilly had suggested that a garda search team search a room beside the bedroom where Rachel was found as he had some weights in there and he said one of them could have been the murder weapon.
