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James Kilroy, who was jailed for life last summer after a jury rejected his claim that he was insane when he beat, stabbed and strangled his wife to death, has been granted legal aid to appeal his conviction. Kilroy...
(Pictured: Valerie French's family Veronica French, David French, Hilary French and Kevin Hosford. Photo: Collins) Mother-of-three Valerie French was "savagely slaughtered" and died in terror at the hands of her...
A jury has unanimously convicted Valerie French Kilroy's husband of her murder, rejecting his claim that he was insane when he beat, stabbed and strangled her to death, in what his third trial since 2021. During James...
A jury may consider whether cannabis-induced psychosis qualifies as a mental disorder that could result in a man who killed his wife being found not guilty of her murder by reason of insanity. Mr Justice Tony Hunt...
Two toxicologists have told the Central Criminal Court it is "highly unlikely" that a man accused of murdering his wife was intoxicated from cannabis at the time of the killing. James Kilroy has pleaded not guilty by...
A park ranger was likely suffering from an acute and transient psychotic disorder when he strangled, beat and stabbed his wife to death, a murder trial has heard. Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Lisa Wootton was called by...
A leading psychiatrist does not agree that drug-induced psychosis can be considered a mental disorder resulting in persons being found not guilty of serious crimes by reason of insanity, a Central Criminal Court murder...
A psychiatrist has denied that when assessing the case of a man who strangled, beat and stabbed his wife to death, he was only interested in evidence that bolstered his conclusion that the accused should be found not...
A park ranger who said he was "on a mission from God" after being found wandering naked through a field having killed his wife was not suffering from a mental disorder and did not meet the criteria for detention under...
A murder trial jury has been shown the bloodied, bent knife that a man used in killing his wife at their rural Co Mayo home. The Central Criminal Court also heard today that accused James Kilroy demonstrated to gardaí...
A Central Criminal Court jury has been told that two psychiatrists disagree on whether a man who is accused of murdering his wife at their rural home in Mayo five years ago satisfies the criteria for a verdict of not...
James Kilroy, whose second trial for the alleged murder of his wife Valerie collapsed last week, will go on trial for a third time in May next year. At the Central Criminal Court this morning, Mr Justice Paul McDermott...
The murder trial of James Kilroy, who admits killing his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, has collapsed for a second time at the Central Criminal Court as a key defence witness, who was in the process of...
It is likely a murder accused husband was not under the influence of cannabis when he killed his wife and that he suffered a psychotic episode due to "the long term effect of chronic cannabis exposure", a toxicologist...
James Kilroy suffered a psychotic episode 18 years before he killed his wife at their rural Co Mayo home and had used cannabis two weeks prior to the incident, a second psychiatrist has told his murder trial....
A murder accused husband had a substance-induced psychotic episode when he killed his wife at their rural Co Mayo home, a psychiatrist has told his trial. Dr Ronan Mullaney, testifying on behalf of the defence today at...
A murder accused husband described to gardai how he "waited in the long grass" for his wife before slitting her throat and choking her with his "bare hands", a Central Criminal Court jury has heard. "I didn't stop,...
A murder accused husband told a consultant psychiatrist who assessed him prior to his wife's body being found that he "was on a mission from God to kill" her and had no choice. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Camilla...
A jury has been sworn in for the Central Criminal Court trial of a man accused of murdering his wife in Co Mayo four years ago. Today James Kilroy (49) said he was “not guilty by reasons of insanity” to the sole charge...
James Kilroy, who is accused of the murder of his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, will go on trial for a second time at the Central Criminal Court later this year. Park ranger Mr Kilroy (49), with an address...
The murder trial of James Kilroy, who admits killing his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, has collapsed at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon due to an "unexpected, complex matter" that has arisen in...
The murder trial of James Kilroy, who admits killing his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, has been adjourned until Monday as it has "unforeseeably come to a bump in the road". Park ranger Mr Kilroy (49), with...
James Kilroy, who admits killing his wife Valerie at their rural Co Mayo home, demonstrated to gardai how he had killed the mother of three and in one interview sketched the knife he had used, a trial jury has heard....
A 49-year-old man was found naked in a field after he killed his wife at their rural Co Mayo home nearly four years ago, a jury has heard. It was during the opening of the trial of James Kilroy at the Central Criminal...
A 49-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife at their home in Westport nearly four years ago by reason of insanity. James Kilroy, with an address at Kilbree Lower, Westport, Co Mayo is charged with...
A husband accused of murdering his wife in Mayo in 2019 will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court in October. James Kilroy (47) of Kilbree Lower, Westport, Co Mayo, is accused of the murder of mother-of-three...