The trial of TV producer Eamonn Lillis for the murder of his wife Celine Cawley has heard details of a note found by gardaí during a search of her house following her death.
Mr Lillis (52), a TV advertisement producer, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife at their home on December 15th, 2008.
The court heard yesterday that Mr Lillis had agreed during Garda interviews he had an affair with massage therapist Jean Tracey 10 weeks before his wife’s death. The court was told Ms Tracey was due to marry her boyfriend the following June.
Asked about the note today, Mr Lillis told gardaí it was about a doomed affair and that he had been writing short stories. Mr Lillis said the note was "based on experience".
The note, which Mr Lillis confirmed was in his hand writing, said that: "She will get that wedding dress. She will marry Keith next June."
The note said she would send out the invitations in January. It continued "You will never be with her properly ... You will never take her to France. She will never share your bed. You are running out of time."
Earlier, the trial heard that gardaí had questioned the delay in time between Mr Lillis discovering his wife's body and ringing the emergency services.
He said he had returned home at about 9.30am and found her body. The emergency phone call was logged at 10.02 am.
Mr Lillis told gardaí at that time that he had blacked out after a struggle with his wife's attacker. On the opening day of the trial, Mr Lillis's legal team said his client now admitted that there was no attacker.
The court also heard that a neighbour heard a woman scream twice at about 9.30 am on the morning of Ms Cawley's death.
In their interviews with Mr Lillis, gardaí also put it to him that his wife was a "strong, dominant" character who was "slightly on the bullying side".
He was asked if it was true that she earned €500,000 a year from their company while he only earned €100,000. Gardaí told him it had been claimed that he was his wife's "lap dog" and she regularly shouted at him.
The jury retired for the afternoon as legal argument got under way. The case resumes on Monday morning.
