Judgment reserved in case of widow who handed savings to neighbours

The High Court has reserved judgment in an action taken by an 80-year-old widow who allegedly handed over her life savings of €124,000 to neighbours under duress after they had driven her from a nursing home to her bank while she was ill.

Mary Bourke claims her neighbours George and Pauline O'Donnell of Shannon Park, Portumna, Galway, influenced her to enter into an improvident and unreasonable transaction knowing she was frail, ill, confused and of advanced years.