in a a crime Horrific, a British mother strangled her three children, while one of the youngsters pleaded with her, asking “what are you doing and why”.
Shocked father Andrew McGinley reveals he can’t stop hearing his son Connor’s last words, only to be strangled by his mother using a bag and tape to strangle him.
He said his wife Deirdre Morley, 44, killed the three children Connor, 9, Daragh, 7, and Carla, 3, at their Dublin home in January 2020.
He also added, according to what the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported, today, Friday, that he “has no future” with his wife, who was proven innocent of the murder because she was insane, according to the court, which ordered her to be deposited in a mental hospital.
crime details
While the court revealed that the mother wanted to die with her children, as she tried before suffocating them to drug them.
The night before the tragedy, I put morphine in the boys’ breakfast cereal and Carla’s bottle, but they spit it out.
Then the next day, 7-year-old Daragh was killed first, as he was at home and didn’t go to school because he was sick.
During her trial, she said that she immediately regretted killing Daragh and wanted to stop, but felt she might not because she was unable to leave any of her children behind.
After strangling Daragh and Carla with duct tape and plastic bags, she brought Connor from school, and while he was watching a children’s program in a play tent inside the house, she approached him with a bag and duct tape.
She explained that when she put the bag on his head, he said to her, “Stop mom, what are you doing? But she replied, I’m sorry Connor.”
attempt to suicide
After committing the crime, Morley decided to commit suicide, and drove her car following consuming alcohol and medicines, as she hit the car in a roundregarding.
However, a driver came back and took her to her house and called an ambulance, out of fear for her.
Later, the husband returned from a business trip, when he found the bodies of his three children. He also found a note warning once morest going upstairs saying “I’m sorry”.
Severe depression
The mother, who was a nurse, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity during her trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, Ireland, an opinion supported by two psychiatric consultants, one for the defense and the other for the prosecution.
The court heard how Morley had fallen into severe depressive psychotic illness, as she was suffering from bipolar II disorder, a known mental disorder.
She previously suffered a breakdown in July 2019 and spent four weeks in a psychiatric hospital.
It is noteworthy that this tragic murder occurred on January 24, 2020 in Dublin, when Morley entered a state of delusion and psychosis.
The mother can be released following five years only if the doctors declare that she is in a good mental state
