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LILLIS IN LOVE

Evil wife killer Eamonn Lillis finds love with childhood sweetheart after ex-Bond girl slaughtered at couple’s home

Starting new life in UK after fleeing Ireland

• Published: 8:00, 26 Dec 2023

EVIL wife killer Eamonn Lillis has found love with the childhood sweetheart he dated before tragic Celine Cawley.

The Irish Sun can reveal that the advertising executive has started a new life in the UK with his long-term ­partner, who he’s been linked to for decades.

Lillis fled Ireland in disgrace after his high-profile release from prison for the 2008 slaying of ex-007 Bond girl Celine at the couple’s plush Dublin home.

Although the brazen thug had initially hoped to start a new life here, he soon changed his tune despite insisting that he had served his time and deserved to live freely.

We have learned that Lillis ­initially relocated to Southampton, where his sister is based, before moving elsewhere.

The Irish Sun can reveal the posh thug is currently in a close relationship with a woman from Ireland who he previously dated before his ill-fated romance with Celine, after rekindling things years after his release from jail.

He is also working as a graphic designer and still has close links to pals in Ireland from before his manslaughter conviction, regularly securing work from back home.

A source said: “Lillis has put everything behind him now and is happy and healthy in the UK.

“He is in a long-term ­relationship with a woman who he dated as a young man before Celine. They are extremely close and dedicated to one another.

“He has been working as a graphic designer for some time now and does a lot of work for friends back home.”

The killer, now in his 60s, was jailed for six years and 11 months — but served just over five years and was freed in April 2015.

Following his conviction, a bitter legal dispute saw Lillis keep half of the couple’s Irish assets because of a gap in the law which allows killers to inherit assets they hold jointly with their victims.

The cliffside mansion where ­Lillis slaughtered his wife was eventually sold off for an eye-watering €2.2million.

Tansey Lodge, on Windgate Road in Howth, was known as Rowan Hill at the time of the killing.

The posh pad was sold for just €850,000 in 2012 following killer Lillis’s 2010 conviction for ­manslaughter after his wife was bludgeoned on the patio.

Mother-of-one Celine Cawley was 46 when she was beaten to death by her husband in 2008.

In recent months, her daughter Georgia has opened up on her “amazing” mum 15 years after her death and said: “She would be so proud of me today.”

Big-hearted Georgia, 30, has dedicated her life to helping kids, using her horses as therapy.

She was just 16 when, in 2008, her monster dad killed her ­producer mum at their home in Howth, leaving the only child with just her horses and a housekeeper to care for her until adulthood.

Georgia recently reflected: “If it wasn’t for the healing power of horses, I don’t know where I’d be right now. Horses have kept me sane and on this earth through dark times.

“I lived in my family home, with a housekeeper until I was 18 and then the housekeeper left.

“I am close to my cousins and my mum’s family, but I lived with my dogs and horses and developed such a strong bond with them and all animals since.”

Georgia has not been in contact with her father since he was sent to prison in February 2010 and says she doesn’t wish to see him again.

She previously vowed in court documents that she would “rather stick pins in my eyes” than be forced to live with her killer father.