The Editor of the Irish Times and Examiner Newspapers will be represented at Ennis Circuit Court today to explain articles which lead to the collapse of the Paschal Carmody trial.
The jury in the trial of the former Killaloe Doctor accused of defrauding dying cancer patients was discharged yesterday after newspaper reports were deemed to present a threat to his chances of a fair trial.
Paschal Carmody’s five week trial came to an end due to what judge Donagh McDonagh described as publications which created an imbalance and endangered the accused’s right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
His comments referred to court reports printed in two Newspapers yesterday which he said contained matters raised in the absence of the jury and "broke all the rules".
Judge McDonagh apologised to the families of the two deceased cancer patients who are the subject of the 9 charges denied by Paschal Carmody and to the former Killaloe doctor himself for the collapse of the trial as he adjourned the case for mention later this morning.
More attention is likely to be focus on what the trial judge will have to say to the Editors of the Irish Examiner and the Irish Times or their legal agents who’ve also been summoned to explain the controversial articles in question and face the possibility of being held in contempt of court.
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