Saturday, June 23, 2007

Psychiatrist accused of murder sent for trial

From the Irish Independent

A psychiatrist charged with the murder of her 16-year-old daughter at their Co Kilkenny home last November was yesterday sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

Lynn Gibbs (47) appeared before Dun Laoghaire district court and was remanded in custody by Judge Claire Leonard.

She was charged that between 11pm on November 25 last and 10am on November 26 she murdered Ciara Gibbs at their home at Killure, Gowran, contrary to common law.

On the application of defending solicitor, Bob Eager, the court certified free legal aid in the case and granted two counsel for the trial.

Gardai in Thomastown were called to their detached two-storey red brick home in the townland of Killure on a back road between Gowran and Paulstown on Sunday, November 26, by an ambulance crew that had been summoned to the house.

Ciara's body was found by her father, Gerard, a lecturer at Carlow Institute of Technology, and her brother, Gearoid, when they returned home from an overnight visit to a relative in Clonmel.

Ciara was a highly popular fourth-year transition student who attended the Loreto secondary school in Kilkenny city.

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