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SHARON Collins denied at all times that she set up the email lyingeyes98@yahoo.ie but the pros- ecution claimed there was ample evi- dence that she had, and alleged she wrote ‘vicious’ emails.
Addressing the jury in her closing speech, Una Ni Raifeartaigh, BL for the prosecution, said there were 14 points which proved that Sharon Collins was ‘Lying Eyes.’
1.The person who sent the emails
from the lyingeyes account must have had access to all three computers used — the Advent computer at the Downes and Howard family business, the Iridium laptop which was located at PJ Howard and Sharon Collins’s home (Ballybeg House) and the Toshiba laptop stolen from Downes and elec tuer
2. Because of the times of usage of the three computers.
3.The content of the emails sent by someone calling herself ‘Sharon’. 4. The knowledge shown in
the emails. According to the prosecution, the sender had indepth knowledge of the personal lives and movements of the Howards.
5. The language of the emails was similar to the letters Sharon Collins wrote to the DPP and her letter to the Gerry Ryan show. For example, the use of the words ‘unbearable’ and ‘vulnerable.’
6. The consistency between the emails and the plan being carried out. For example the ricin, getting rid of the computers and references to keys and photographs.
7. The general user activity on the computer.
Searches for weight loss, inheritance rights and kitchens were interwoven with searches for hitmen and assassins.
8. Because of the times of the user activity.
9. The consistency between Sharon Collins’s movements and her emails. 10. The consistency between email activity and phone calls, particularly on August 15 and 16, when the deal was being closed on the ‘hit’.
11. The fact that there has been
no sign of Maria Marconi on the computers indicates that Ms Collins was lyingeyes.
12. Sharon Collins’ mother’s maiden name, Cronin, was used, particularly on the application form on hitman. 13. The fact that she made certain admissions in relation to the FedEx tracking number, for the €15,000 package she sent to Las Vegas, was the “smoking gun”.
14. The user went in and out of
the sharoncollins@eircom.net
and lyingeyes98 @yahoo.ie email rererere) enslave