Woman denies knowingly paying for drugs

A woman accused of helping her friend take her own life denied to gardaí she knowingly paid for lethal drugs for the deceased.

Gail O’Rorke said she had a “gut feeling something was going to happen” the day before Bernadette Forde’s suicide but that she couldn’t do anything to stop it. “I’m glad she did what she had to do and is at peace,” she said in a statement to gardaí, the day after the death.

“I’m also glad she didn’t tell me as I would have refused to help. I think this is a necessary evil for her to do.”