A jury has seen security video footage of the entrance to a Dublin builders' yard taken at the time when Ms Geraldine Diver was being strangled in her car outside. Her husband, John, denies her murder at his Central Criminal Court trial.
The prosecution alleges Mr John Diver (60) strangled his wife, Geraldine (42), and that her affair with a 27-year-old supermarket employee may have been a motive for the killing.
Ms Diver's body was found in her red Renault Clio outside Buckley's builders' providers on Robinhood Road, Clondalkin, on the night of December 2nd, 1996. She had lived in Walkinstown with her husband and their two children.
The security footage showed a figure who is not identifiable getting out of the rear of the car shortly after 10 p.m. and walking away in the direction of the Long Mile Road. The car had been parked at the entrance to the yard for some 23 minutes when the figure left the scene.
The jury heard that gardai collected the security footage from the manager of Buckley's builders' providers, Mr Maurice Veale, within hours of the killing.
The jury heard that the recording revealed that Ms Diver's car arrived at the entrance to the yard at 21:40. Its headlights remained on.
The brake lights of the car appeared to go out 12 minutes later, and the left indicator briefly came on three minutes later again, before all the lights in the car went out. At 22:01 a light appeared inside the car for seconds before the rear door opened and a person got out and walked away.