Stabbing tragedy: Son left care ‘too soon’

THE family of a young man who is believed to have stabbed his mother to death had tried to have him placed in psychiatric care in recent weeks.

Paul Henry, aged 25, is currently in Garda custody on suspicion of killing his mother, Ann, in Roscommon town on Saturday.

Ms Henry, 47, who up until two years ago had worked as an account clerk for a local chemist’s, had started her second year of a course at Athlone Institute of Technology last Tuesday.