The daughter of the late Evelyn Joel is to bring a High Court action aimed at preventing her retrial on a charge of gross negligence manslaughter of her mother.

THE DPP has ordered a retrial into the unlawful killing of 59-year-old Evelyn Joel.

A JURY yesterday failed to reach a verdict in the trial of Eleanor Joel and her partner John Costen, who had denied the unlawful killing, by neglect, of Evelyn Joel.

The jury has retired to consider a verdict in the case of a Wexford couple on trial for the unlawful killing due to neglect of a woman almost six years ago.

THE daughter of Evelyn Joel told the trial into her death that she accepted her mother was in a comatose state when she went into hospital.

A GARDA superintendent has denied claims they did not carry out an investigation into the death of Evelyn Joel.

ONE of the accused in his statement to investigating gardaí, told the trial into the death of Evelyn Joel, that “it was going to come to the point when I would kill myself or go mental”.

THE trial into the death of Evelyn Joel heard one of the accused told gardaí “he was sorry for what happened to Evelyn”.

THE son of Evelyn Joel said he had seldom spoken to his mother in the months leading to her death.

WEARING casual clothes and a New York Yankees baseball cap, Jonathan Costen arrived in the old, dilapidated courtroom with Eleanor Joel, who was wearing a grey tracksuit top and dark pants, at 10.30am.

THE daughter of a woman who died weighing just six-and-a-half stone and the daughter’s 34-year-old partner were released without charge last night after 12 hours of garda questioning about her death.

A man and woman arrested in connection with the death of a middle-aged woman who was found severely malnourished in a house in Co Wexford days before she died were tonight released without charge.

Gardaí in Co Wexford have arrested two people this morning in connection with the death of Evelyn Joel.

ELEANOR JOEL’S account of events prior to the death of her mother rings absolutely true, and she is being quite unjustifiably vilified by the media and individuals who have no conception of the reality of such situations.

EVELYN JOEL, the woman who died a week after being removed from her daughter’s house in a severely malnourished state, was only months away from having her own home.

THIS is one of the women at the centre of the House of Horrors controversy in Wexford, where a 58-year-old woman died weighing just four stone after months of starvation.

The daughter of a bed-ridden woman who died days after being found in a severely malnourished state today said she had done her best to look after her.

Neglect and filth marked Evelyn Joel's passing, writes Catherine Shanahan.