‘It’s been 591 days without her on this world and it feels like a lifetime’

The parents of a 23-year-old woman strangled to death by her boyfriend have said they will never forget what was inflicted upon their “beautiful daughter” and will never recover from her loss.

The testimony was heard as part of a victim impact statement read to the Central Criminal Court, where Oisin Conroy, aged 34, who was previously found not guilty of the murder of Natalie McGuinness by reason of insanity, was committed to the Central Mental Hospital.

He also caused serious lacerations to his own head with a knife and told a doctor that he had tried to “skin himself alive”.