DPP to receive file on family stabbing case

A FILE is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in relation to the stabbing to death of a young woman by her mother, an inquest was told yesterday.

DPP to receive file on family stabbing case

The body of Jessica Prendergast, aged 21, was found in a pool of blood in the hall of a rented house on the Old Commons Road, in Blackpool, Cork, on July 27, 2006, after her mother, May, walked into a local taxi office carrying her one-year-old grandson Jamie Lee. Gardaí are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death.

Ms Prendergast has been receiving specialist medical attention in a Cork psychiatric hospital since her daughter’s death.

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