Pair found unanimously guilty of murder in Owen Creaney wheelie bin case
Following a trial that lasted five weeks, Stephen Thomas Hughes (29) and Shaunean Boyle (25) were found unanimously guilty by a jury of murdering Lurgan man Owen Creaney.
The vulnerable 40-year old – who was known by the nickname Fonzie – was brutally and mercilessly beaten in the hallway of Hughes’s Moyraverty Court home in Craigavon in the early hours of Thursday July 3, 2014.
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Hide AdIn the aftermath of the savage assault, during which Mr Creaney sustained over 60 injuries including a broken breastbone and 15 fractures to his ribs as well as severe head injuries, the pair carried him upstairs.
There, he was showered after wetting himself, changed, and placed on a sofa in a bedroom.
The duo then left Mr Creaney in the room for two days, before he succumbed to fatal head and chest wounds.
Once dead, Hughes and Boyle then slid Mr Creaney’s remains into a green recycling wheelie bin which was then brought back down the stairs and left at the rear of the property.
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