42 - Danger at Home: The Killing of Celine Cawley

Celine Cawley was a model, a former bond girl, an advertising producer and a successful business owner. But in December of 2008, she was attacked in her own home and died of her injuries.

Her husband, Eamonn Lillis, said that there had been an intruder in their exclusive Howth home, but was he telling the truth?

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Sources:
Abigail Rieley, Death on the Hill: The Killing of Celine Cawley (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2010). Purchase here

“Treacy tells court of Lillis affair” from RTE.ie https://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0120/126581-cawleyc/ (20 January 2010) 

Aengus O'Hanlon, “Don't let evil killers like Eamonn Lillis inherit their victims' assets, family of tragic Celine plead” from DublinLive.ie https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/celine-cawley-family-lillis-assets-15455514 (23 November 2018) 

Francesca Comyn, “Eamonn Lillis will leave prison tomorrow” from Newstalk.ie https://www.newstalk.com/news/eamonn-lillis-expected-to-be-released-today-after-serving-five-years-for-killing-his-wife-662547 (10 April 2015) 

Shane Phelan, “Celine's family in 'draining' battle to keep assets from wife killer Lillis” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/celines-family-in-draining-battle-to-keep-assets-from-wife-killer-lillis-37557859.html (23 November 2018) 

Ruairi Cotter, “Loaded wife killer Eamonn Lillis earns tidy profit as he flogs luxury Dublin property without ever living in it” in The Sun https://www.thesun.ie/news/2381348/loaded-wife-killer-eamonn-lillis-earns-tidy-profit-as-he-flogs-luxury-dublin-property-without-ever-living-in-it/ (31 March 2018)
 
“'Wife Killer' Eamonn Lillis” from Crime.ie https://crime.ie/article/wife-killer-eamonn-lillis/3121 (2 April 2012) 

Larissa Nolan and Sheila Flynn, “Wife-killer flights daughter for his home saying: 'She can have it when I'm dead” in The Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327428/Wife-killer-fights-daughter-home-saying-She-Im-dead.html (7 November 2010) 

Vincent Browne, “The media's 'right' to photograph a witness” in Magill https://magill.ie/society/medias-right-photograph-witness (3 February 2010) 

“Family of Celine Cawley call for review of domestic killings in Ireland” from BreakingNews.ie https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/family-of-celine-cawley-call-for-review-of-domestic-killings-in-ireland-887340.html (23 November 2018) 

Dan Kerins, “Killer Eamonn Lilis flees to Southhampton from psion after killing Bond-girl wife” in The Southern Daily Echo https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/12885350.killer-eamonn-lillis-flees-to-southampton-after-being-freed-from-prison-after-killing-bond-girl-wife-celine-cawley/ (14 April 2015) 

Jack Power “Trial over killing of Celine Cawley was 'horrific' for her family” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/trial-over-killing-of-celine-cawley-was-horrific-for-her-family-1.3709594 (24 November 2018) 

Juno McEnroe and Fiachra O'Cionnaith, “Law blocking people who kill partners from profiting through inheritance laws to be introduced” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/law-blocking-people-who-kill-partners-from-profiting-through-inheritance-laws-to-be-introduced-909774.html (8 March 2019)