A woman who stabbed her 76-year-old mother to death in the belief she was the devil just five days after she was released from psychiatric care will remain in the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) where she is undergoing treatment
A woman who stabbed her 76-year-old mother to death in the belief she was the devil just five days after she was released from psychiatric care will remain in the Central Mental Hospital where she is undergoing treatment.
READ MORE - Bloodstained woman found naked after fatally stabbing 76-year-old told garda 'I killed my mother' Mr Justice McDermott said he would make the appropriate order under the 2006 Act and committed her to the CMH. He thanked all parties for their assistance in the case. The case, Ms Bergin's defence counsel Fiona Murphy SC had told the trial jury, was a "heart-breaking" one, with the defendant stood accused of murdering her elderly mother, "the one person to whom she felt closest with and who supported her tirelessly through her life".
The defendant's mental health deteriorated significantly in the year leading up to the fatal stabbing with more frequent admissions to hospital. Ms Bergin had six psychiatric admissions to hospital between March 6, 2021 and April 8, 2022 and was last released from hospital five days before killing her mother.
A 999 call had been made by the deceased Mary Bergin hours before she was killed seeking an ambulance for her daughter, who was naked in the back garden at the time.
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