Woman who stabbed mother (76) to death found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity

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 has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

The 12 jurors accepted the evidence given by two consultant forensic psychiatrists that the accused, Moire Bergin, was suffering from bipolar affective disorder with symptoms of mania, depression and psychosis at the time of the killing and fulfilled the criteria for the special verdict.

The case, Ms Bergin’s defence counsel Fiona Murphy SC had told the trial jury, was a “heartbreaking” one, in which the defendant was accused of murdering her elderly mother, “the one person to whom she felt closest with, and who supported her tirelessly through her life”.

Moire Bergin (47), with an address at Seville Place, Dublin 1, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of her mother Mary Bergin in her home at First Avenue, Seville Place, Dublin 1 on April 13th, 2022.

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