Depending on how you look at it, perhaps sleep deprivation can uncover the truth especially if you talk about heinous crimes. In fact, this is the case for Martin Conmey who is facing trial for the possible conviction of a missing 19 year old civil servant 40 years ago.
Conmey is trying to overturn the conviction of manslaughter for the disappearance of Una Lynskey. He claimed that he had not slept for the past 24 hours and that he would have said anything when he gave gardaí an account of events alleged to have occurred on the evening she vanished. The body of Lynskey was discovered on December 10, 1971, in a ditch in a remote part of the Dublin Mountains two months after she vanished while returning to her family home after work.
