LILLIS DEATH HOUSE ON MARKET FOR €2M
Former tv executive brutally killed wife in patio attack
THE house where evil Eamonn Lillis killed his wife is back on the market for €2million.
Formerly known as Rowan Hill, the property in Howth, North Dublin, has been renamed Tansy Lodge and has been given a major renovation.
The home became infamous when businesswoman Celine Cawley was killed by Lillis in December 2008.
The former
TV executive was later sentenced to six years and 11 months for manslaughter.
The property at Windgate Road now very different.
The 3,300 sq ft four-bedroom family home is set on a hill. It boasts family, sitting, dining, utility and television rooms, lounge, kitchen, pantry area and five bathrooms.
A garden of shrubs, trees, plants and hedging is to the rear. The original house was sold in 2012 for €850,000, considerably lower than what most homes in the Eamonn Lillis is much-desired area go for. Property agent Lisney is selling the house with more pictures and details on their website.
Lillis served five years in Wheatfield Prison, West Dublin, until 2015.
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Originally from Terenure in South Dublin, he battered his wife to death with a brick on the back patio of their home on December 15, 2008.
He told gardai afterwards he had interrupted a masked burglar, then claimed he may have been known to the couple and pointed to innocent Stephen Larkin as a suspect.
Speaking in 2014 as Lillis tried to get early release, Mr Larkin said: “It’s sickening. He’s a monster, he should be made serve the full max to the last day of his sentence.
“He shouldn’t get out for Christmas... there should be no more allowances for him.
“He got away light enough as it was.” It also emerged during the trial Lillis had changed his clothes and hidden them in the attic before alerting emergency services about the attack on his wife.
After failing to reconcile with his adult daughter and other relatives the killer fled Ireland for a new life after his release in April 2015.