Ryan’s name in web search
MARY Lowry’s computer was used to search for Bobby Ryan’s name the day before his body was recovered, a murder trial heard yesterday.
The Central Criminal Court was told she gave her computer to gardai investigating his death.
Patrick Quirke, of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Ryan, a parttime DJ who went by the name Mr Moonlight.
He went missing on June 3, 2011, after leaving his girlfriend Ms Lowry’s home at about 6.30am. His body was found in an underground tank on the farm owned by her and leased by the accused at Fawnagown, Co Tipperary, in April 2013.
The prosecution claims Quirke murdered Mr Ryan so he could rekindle an affair with Ms Lowry.
Det Gda Paul Fitzpatrick of the Cyber Crime Bureau received her computer in
May 2015. He told Quirke’s defence counsel Bernard
Condon when he probed Ms Lowry’s computer he found a search for “trace Ireland Bobby Ryan” carried out on April 29, 2013.
On Thursday the jury heard that a computer taken from Quirke’s house was used in December 2012 to search for “human body decomposition timeline” and “rate of human decomposition”.
The trial continues in front of Justice Eileen Creedon and a jury of six men and six women.