Trial of nanny accused of killing baby postponed

The murder trial of Aisling Brady McCarthy — the Irish nanny accused of fatally assaulting a one-year-old girl in Boston — has been postponed in a dramatic development which saw a judge order a full review of medical evidence relating to the baby’s death.

Baby Rehma Sabir was found unconscious in her cot and rushed to hospital with head injuries in January 2013. She died two days later on her first birthday.

Ms McCarthy, from Lavey, Co Cavan, was subsequently charged with killing the child, whom she had been looking after for almost six months. She has since been held without bail.