A series of pure chances, from forestry workers looking for dumped rubbish to a forensic scientist on holiday in West Cork in 1981, led to the conviction of Noel Long for the murder of Nora Sheehan
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Noel Long, aged 74, of Maulbawn, Passage West, Co Cork has pleaded not guilty to murdering 54-year-old Nora Sheehan between June 6 and June 12, 1981, .
However, former State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy agreed with prosecution lawyers that death from asphyxia by one of two methods could not be proved or…