A bid by a double murderer to overturn his conviction must be reheard after one of the appeal judges forgot he oversaw the original trial.
Jason O’Driscoll was found guilty of the murder of two men in Co Louth 13 years ago.
The 42-year-old, from Richmond Avenue, Fairview in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to murdering 31-year-old Anthony Burnett and 25-year-old Joseph Redmond on 7 March 2012.
In December 2017, after a trial that lasted six weeks, a jury told Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy they could not reach either a unanimous or majority verdict in O’Driscoll’s case.
He was sentenced to life in prison in October 2018 by Mr Justice Michael White after he was…