A Dublin man has been acquitted of murdering 18 year old Marioara Rostas who was shot four times in the head and dumped in a shallow grave in Wicklow.
It took the jury just under 3 hours to acquit Alan Wilson of New Street Gardens who had denied killing the Romanian teenager at a house on Brabazon Street in The Coombe in January 2008.
Alan Wilson showed no reaction to the jury verdict clearing him of the murder of Marioara Rostas.
The 18 year old Romanian was last seen by her younger brother getting into a car at the back of Trinity College while out begging on January 6th 2008.
Four years after her disappearance gardai found the teenager's body wrapped in plastic in a foetal position in a shallow grave in the Wicklow Mountains.
They were led there by convicted criminal Fergus O'Hanlon - a vital state witness - who testified that he'd helped Alan Wilson dipose of the body.
O'Hanlon was granted immunity from prosecution but the defence argued that his evidence was self serving and full of lies.
Alan Wilson - a father of four - may have been acquitted of murder but he'll return to prison this evening to serve out a 7 year sentence for an unrelated meat cleaver attack.
