Deirdre Morley found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering children at Co Dublin home
Jurors have acquitted Deirdre Morley of murdering her children Conor McGinley, Darragh McGinley and Carla McGinley
15:55, 20 MAY 2021
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Deirdre Morley allegedly murdered her three kids at their family home while her husband was away (Image: PA)
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A 44-year-old woman charged with murdering her three children has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Conor, nine , Darragh, seven, and Carla McGinley, three, were found found dead at their house in Newcastle, County Dublin in January 2020.
Their mother, Deirdre Morley, was acquitted of all three counts on Thursday.
Mr Justice Paul Coffey said there was no contest about the verdict.
The court had heard Ms Morley had a severe psychotic depressive illness.
The jury of ten men and two women were told they must be satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that Ms Morley was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killings.
Jury returns verdict in trial of woman who killed her three children
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Paediatric nurse Deirdre Morley, who smothered her three young children at their family home, has been found not guilty of their murders by reason of insanity.
The 12 jurors accepted the evidence given by two psychiatrists that the accused, who specialised in renal care at Our Lady s Hospital in Crumlin, was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the three killings and fulfilled the criteria for the special verdict.
The case, Ms Morley s defence counsel had told the jury, was a tragedy of enormous proportions , with the tragic irony of the accused being someone who had committed her entire professional life to the care of children as a paediatric nurse.
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