Journalist may face murder charge after mercy killing

A TIPPERARY woman who confessed to the mercy killing of her great-aunt in a newspaper article faces possible murder charges.

Maureen Messent, aged 67, born in Clogheen near Clonmel, was arrested by police in Britain last Thursday after admitting to killing her great-aunt by administering a morphine overdose.

Ms Messent made the confession in a column she wrote for the Birmingham Evening Mail, published on February 3. She has worked at the Mail for the past 40 years.