The trial of Joe O'Reilly at the Central Criminal Courtheard evidence from a friend of the victim.
Mr O'Reilly (35) of Lambay View, Baldarragh, The Naul, Co Dublin has pleaded not guilty to murdering Rachel O'Reilly, his 30 year-old wife and mother of their two children at the family home on October 4th 2004.
Fiona Slevin, a friend of both Mr and Mrs O'Reilly said she was at the funeral reception at the Regency Hotel on October 11th when she and the accused began talking about the murder weapon.
She said he told her: "I don't know why they're searching the fields. It's in the water."
"I looked at him in shock," she said.
She said he knew he had said something he shouldn't have and that he then went on to explain that if he had committed the murder, he would have put the weapon in the water.
"He said 'that would get rid of the DNA'," she added.
Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Mr Patrick Gageby SC, Ms Slevin denied she was confusing that conversation with one she had with Mr O'Reilly's brother when they discussed media reports of the murder.
However, she accepted she told gardai about the comments on November 23rd and not one or two weeks after the funeral, as she had first thought.
Michelle Slattery, a co-worker of Mr O'Reilly's in an outdoor advertising business, gave evidence that on the day of the killing, the accused walked into the office at midday.
She described his eyes as being red and puffy, as though he had been crying. When she remarked to him: "Jesus, you look like shit," he shrugged and said: "Ah, Jesus."
Rachel O'Reilly's father, Jim Callaly also gave evidence that he was painting the family home with his son, when he found out Rachel had failed to collect her son from crèche.
His wife left to check on her and at around 2.20pm, he spoke with his wife from the murder scene and she told them Rachel was dead. He said they went straight out to the house but that when they arrived, they weren't allowed into see the body.
He described feeling very upset and claustrophobic before a paramedic directed them to an ambulance for more comfort.
Before the funeral, he and his wife wrote a letter to their daughter and left it in the coffin, and they invited others to do the same.
Her brother Paul Callaly told the court that he visited Mr O'Reilly's house with his brother Anthony on November 14th.
As Anthony was painting the bedroom, he struck up a conversation with the accused in the kitchen.
He said they were both looking out the back towards Murphy's Quarry, when he remembered he had heard about a CCTV camera being in the quarry. He said he then asked Mr O'Reilly where the camera was and that the accused told him he didn't know.
He added: "He said he used to bring the kids there at the weekends and he said that if he had known there was a camera there, he would have objected to it, which I thought was strange."
Under cross-examination by Mr Gageby, Mr Callaly said that while he couldn't remember how he had originally heard about the camera, he was sure it hadn't been from Mr O'Reilly.
However, he admitted it could have been Mr O'Reilly who brought up the topic of the camera.
"But I knew about it when I came to the house that day," he added.
The trial before Mr Justice Barry White and a jury of two women and nine men continues tomorrow.