Nanny evidence ongoing

A review of medical evidence in the case of Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy, accused of murdering a baby in her care, has still not been completed three months after it began.

Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts, was yesterday told it will take another two to four weeks before it is finished.

Jacqueline Faherty, a lawyer for the chief medical examiner’s office, said the review might take another two to four weeks. A fresh hearing has been scheduled for August 28.

“There has been no final conclusion,” Ms Faherty told the court, adding that the chief medical officer, Henry Nields, wants to review the case himself.

The review, of defence expert opinions on the evidence but also of the autopsy on the body of 1-year-old Rehma Sabir, began in April. However, the examiner’s office did not receive some material until June and this week asked for additional items, the court heard.

The trial of 36-year-old Ms McCarthy is set to start in October and last for four to six weeks. She has been charged with first degree murder, accused of violently shaking the baby in January 2013.

She was in jail for more than two years until granted bail in May, largely because of the review but also because it emerged that immigration authorities had no objection to the undocumented nanny being released under certain conditions.