Acquitted Offaly GP urges people to reach out as she describes 'dark place of considering self-harm'

The Offaly GP, Bernadette Scully, has used her post-verdict statement to highlight the absence of services for people with disabilities and to urge those in danger of self harming to reach out for help.

Her solicitor, Patricia Cronin, read her statement to the media outside the Central Criminal Court, after she was cleared of the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter by giving her too much sedative.