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Sat 06 Jun 2007Friend says accused told of marital difficultiesA friend of Joe O'Reilly told the trial that the accused man confided to him about his marital difficulties with Rachel.John Austen, a close friend of the accused, told Denis Vaughan Buckley SC, prosecuting, that he had got to know the O'Reillys through playing softball.