The trial of a former Killaloe doctor accused of defrauding the families of dying cancer patients will enter its closing stages at Ennis Circuit Court today..
63 year old Paschal Carmody of Ballycuggeran, Killaloe, denies obtaining over 16 thousand euro to treat the now deceased patients at his East Clinic on the false pretence that he could cure them.
Seven charges Paschal Carmody is accused of relate to the late Conor O’Sullivan, a 15-year-old Wexford teenager who died from an aggressive bone cancer in November 2002.
The remaining two relate to 58 year old John Sheridan of, Kells, Co Kilkenny, who died from liver cancer in November 2002.
Both were patients of the former Clare doctor and attended his East Clinic in Killaloe to receive photodynamic therapy.
Family members of both Conor O’Sullivan and John Sheridan have told Ennis Circuit Court that during treatment Paschal Carmody said he would cure their loved ones cancer or – keep them alive – Giving evidence in his own defence the former Killaloe GP said he never made such statements .
The accused also said his own brother’s life was extended by 10 years after he was given PDT to treat a tumour, while other witnesses spoke of seeing their cancer "zapped" away by Photodynamic therapy.
Closing charges will be heard in court today before the jury is asked to consider its verdict.
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