‘Emily was her No 1 priority... I don’t think she saw her life without Emily’

The partner of a woman on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter, has given evidence of his horror at finding the 11-year-old cold in her bed and being unable to wake her mother.

Andrius Kozlovskis said there was never a suggestion of suicide or that their lives would be better without the child.

He was giving evidence to the Central Criminal Court yesterday morning in the trial of 58-year-old Offaly GP Bernadette Scully.