Mooney pleaded guilty to his wife's murder earlier this year after gardaí hacked into his phone and discovered video footage of the build-up to the murder and an audio recording of the murder itself.

However, the Cellebrite software that gardaí uses to analyse mobile phones has recently undergone an update that allows phones to be unlocked without a password

The body of Anna Mooney (43) was discovered in the kitchen of her home in Raheny on June 15th