Pair guilty of murdering pensioner whose body was thrown off Donegal cliffs

Alan Vial and Nikita Burns have been convicted of murdering Robert Wilkin, a sixty-six-year-old pensioner, at the Central Criminal Court. The jury returned majority verdicts of ten to two against each of the accused following a trial that began in January 2025. Wilkin died on 25 June 2023 near Sliabh Liag in County Donegal. His body was discovered in the sea eight days later, recovered from below the cliff face…