Eamon Lillis

More Gardie arrived, along with an ambulance and a fire brigade.

It was Céline's business and Eamon worked there.

He had been made a partner.

Eamon called the company and spoke to a woman on the phone.

He told her someone had attacked Selene at the house, but she was in hospital and would be okay.

But by then Selene was dead.

As Eamon spoke, he didn't know his wife was gone.

Gardie acted quickly with the information provided by Eamon.

A helicopter was dispatched to search across Hoth in the hunt for the masked intruder.

A press briefing was then held at Clontarf Garda Station at half four that afternoon.

Later that day, Eamon Lillis gave Gardaí his formal statement, the first of two handwritten statements he would provide.

He needed to be with his daughter.

But they couldn't go home.

Not yet.

Rowan Hill was a crime scene.

Eamon wrote in a formal statement that afternoon, Selene is a fighter, a tough nut.

She would have confronted someone.

She wasn't a wallflower, he wrote.

A burglar may be one explanation, but there could be others they were yet to uncover.

As news of Selene's death became a national story, Eamon Lillis sought comfort in the home of his in-laws.