Carmody trial brought to an end
The trial was brought to an end yesterday afternoon when reports of the trial, which appeared in both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Times — and supplied to both newspapers by a freelance journalist — were cited for possible contempt by defence counsel Patrick Marrinan.
Mr Carmody, aged 63, of Ballycuggeran in Killaloe, Co Clare, had pleaded not guilty to nine charges of obtaining more than €16,000 by deception or under false pretences from the families of two terminally ill cancer patients under the pretence that he could cure their cancer.
