Conor Feehan
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And they're there in the fields, it seems, until close to around midnight.
And at that stage, a few of them decide to go to the chipper.
Must have been some shock.
That was shortly after 8am the next day.
So there's a gap now between around midnight when the group goes to the chipper and Cameron's body being found at 8am.
That dog walker, even from a glance, they could tell that something very bad had happened.
Can you talk us through then the Garda investigation, which obviously swung into action very quickly?
I presume you were probably up there that day.
In some sense, you can kind of understand people not wanting to get in trouble with parents, with the guards, whatever, even if they knew nothing about what actually happened.
But I suppose it was crucial that GardaĂ were able to identify everybody
who was there, speak to everybody who was there.
What did they learn from talking to Cameron's friends in those early stages of the investigation?
But the phone would have crucial evidence that would point to an individual.
You mentioned there was lots of rumours spreading locally about what might have happened that night, what might have led to the murder.
There was no obvious motive or anything like that, but eventually GardaĂ concluded that they really only had one suspect and that's where Aaron Connolly comes back into the story.
Yeah, so you had a four year gap, more than four years before the trial then comes to the Central Criminal Court.
That in itself was...
quite dramatic.
And there was a standout moment in some ways where new information came before the jury that neither side had really expected would come out during the trial in the way that it did.
And he admitted that he was one of those who did take a combination of drugs that night.