Court archive
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2021-05-31 · Dublin
A hearing in the Deirdre Morley case was adjourned to 8 June to allow lawyers to review a psychiatric report. The court had been awaiting a report from a consultant forensic psychiatrist at the Central Mental Hospital. Mr Justice Paul Coffey, hearing via video link, said he had only received the report after 11 am and would consider it before the…
2021-05-20 · Newcastle, Dublin
In the trial of Deirdre Morley, accused of murdering her three children, the jury was informed by Mr Justice Paul Coffey that they could deliver a majority verdict if ten of the twelve jurors agreed. The foreman noted they had further questions to raise later that day. The jury had spent over three hours deliberating since the previous day. They…
2021-05-20 · Newcastle, Dublin
In the trial of Deirdre Morley, a 44‑year‑old paediatric nurse from Parson's Court, Newcastle, Co Dublin, the jury was instructed by Mr Justice Paul Coffey to consider a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Morley is accused of murdering her three children—sons Conor (9) and Darragh (7) and daughter Carla (3)—whose bodies were…
2021-05-20 · Newcastle, Dublin
Paediatric nurse Deirdre Morley, 44, was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the murders of her three children, aged 9, 7 and 3. Two forensic psychiatrists testified that she suffered a mental disorder at the time of the killings and could not appreciate the moral wrongness of her actions or refrain from them. The jury accepted the…
2021-05-19 · Crumlin, Dublin
In the Deirdre Morley trial, two psychiatrists testified that the accused, a 44‑year‑old nurse, suffered from a mental disorder at the time of the killings. Dr Brenda Wright, for the defence, described her as having bipolar affective disorder and believed she thought it morally right to kill her children, who were aged 9, 7 and 3. Dr Mary…
2021-05-19 · Dublin
In the Central Criminal Court, Dr Brenda Wright testified that 44‑year‑old Deirdre Morley, a renal‑specialist nurse, was suffering from bipolar affective disorder and believed it was morally right to smother her three children, whom she claimed had been irreparably damaged. She had attempted to drug them with morphine and codeine the night before…
2021-05-13 · Newcastle, Dublin
In a Central Criminal Court hearing, Mr Justice Paul Coffey lifted a reporting restriction that had previously barred the publication of the identity of Deirdre Morley, a 44‑year‑old mother charged with murdering her three children. The restriction had been imposed after a Court of Appeal ruling that Section 252 of the Children Act 2001…
2020-10-19 · Newcastle, Dublin
Deirdre Morley, 44, of Parson's Court, Newcastle, Co Dublin, faces charges of murdering her three children – sons Conor (9) and Darragh (7) and daughter Carla (3). Their bodies were found at the family home on 24 January. The Central Criminal Court heard that the prosecution awaits a psychiatric report. Defence counsel Michael Bowman SC indicated…