Wednesday February 18 2009
A PRIVATE investigator has been hired by Jean Reilly's family to prove that someone killed the 33year-old Drogheda woman in Majorca in August 2006.
Jean's dad, George, who lives in the Dale, is still looking for answers.
'How could she have died after jumping off a five-foot ledge? What happened to her passport and money which she had on her when she rang home from the airport? Why had she left the airport when she wanted to get the first flight home and why was she afraid that someone was out to get her?' her elderly dad wonders.
The family and many other local people have contributed to the cost of hiring a private investigator. He is expected to fly out to Spain shortly where he will also try and publicise the case, particularly among holiday-makers and the ex-pat community.
George Reilly also says he has been contacted by Interpol in relation to the case.
Jean was living with a British man, Kevin Martin, in Majorca for a number of years before her death. He has claimed that she had become increasingly nervous since her mum died a few months earlier.
This is disputed by the Reilly family who say she told them she was in fear of her life.
Kevin Martin, who works as DJ on the island, said he was very upset at being accused of involvement in Jean's death.
In June 2008 he was arrested by Majorcan police on suspicion of selling thousands of bootlegged CDs to holiday-makers who visited Magaluf. At the time, it was alleged that the sales of the remixed 70s and 80s hits would have been worth over € 100,000.
Sitting in his Drogheda home, George Reilly is many miles away from where Jean died but he is determined that they will get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her final days.
- CHRISTINE DOHERTY
