Fionn Braidwood pleads not guilty to murder charge

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Fionn Braidwood pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court on 5 December 2016. He also denied assault causing harm to two people at the same Dún Laoghaire address.

Braidwood is charged with murdering Jane Braidwood on 20 January 2015. A forensic psychiatrist told the jury that he was suffering a relapse of paranoid schizophrenia and, in her view, could not refrain from the act because of his mental disorder.

The trial continued before Justice Carmel Stewart, with the issue of a possible verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity still to be considered.