Jury hears details of Carmody’s garda interviews

PHOTODYNAMIC therapy given to two terminally ill cancer patients by Paschal Carmody “was merely an excuse to extract large sums of cash from them knowing that the treatment would be of little benefit”.

That was the charge made by Detective Garda Philip Ryan in an interview with Carmody in April 2006, read out in court yesterday.

In a separate interview with the gardaí in 2006, Carmody denied benefiting financially from the PDT treatment administered to patients at his East Clinic.