Ex-doctor faces trial over ‘defrauding’ dying patients

THE High Court has cleared the way for a former doctor to be tried on charges of defrauding a number of terminally ill cancer patients.

Ex-doctor faces trial over ‘defrauding’ dying patients

In a judgment delivered yesterday Mr Justice John Hedigan rejected claims by Paschal Carmody, aged 61, with an address at Ballycuggaran, Killaloe, Co Clare, that there had been a delay by the DPP in bringing the charges against him.

The judge held there was “no delay capable of giving rise to an unfair trial”.

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