Article: FORGIVE ME.. RACHEL O'REILLY TRIAL: DAY ONE Accused weeps as letter he left in his wife's coffin is read to a packed court.(News)

Byline: DARREN BOYLE at the Central Criminal Court

MURDER accused Joe O'Reilly asked

for his wife Rachel's forgiveness in

a letter buried with her, a court heard

yesterday.

O'Reilly, 35, of Naul, Co Dublin, denies his wife's murder at the family home on October 4, 2004.

The jury was told in a letter dated four days after the crime, O'Reilly wrote: "This is the hardest letter I ever had to write for reasons only we know.

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