‘Siobhan was not suicidal at time of death’

THE family of a woman whose husband’s trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court yesterday have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.

Brian Kearney, aged 50, with an address at Carnroe, Knocknashee, Goatstown, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Siobhan Kearney, aged 38, on February 28, 2006 — his 49th birthday.

Ms Kearney, a mother of one, was found strangled in the upstairs bedroom of the house in Goatstown early that morning.