Jury hears suicide note written by Offaly GP accused of killing her disabled daughter

A doctor on trial, charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter by giving her too much sedative, has denied that a suicide note she wrote afterwards was acknowledgment that she caused the girl’s death, saying: ‘I had lost my reason for living’.

The 58-year-old was being cross examined by the State today on the eighth day of her trial.