Sandra Higgins trial ends without verdict on serious harm charge

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Sandra Higgins’s trial for intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a baby ended without a verdict at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 25 June 2015.

The jury could not reach either a unanimous or majority decision after deliberating for just under six hours, and Judge Patricia Ryan discharged it.

Higgins was remanded on continuing bail, with the case listed for mention on 2 July 2015.

The prosecution alleged the baby suffered injuries consistent with violent shaking while in Higgins’s care, while defence experts suggested an earlier injury or head trauma.