'We didn't understand what was wrong. We're not doctors': Mother of man who killed 9-year-old brother

The mother of a young man who fatally stabbed his nine-year-old brother and then took his own life has said that even now the family are unable to understand how something like that could happen.

Tue, 19 Feb, 2019 - 21:13

Latest: The mother of a young man who fatally stabbed his nine-year-old brother and then took his own life has said that even now the family are unable to understand how something like that could happen.

Carmel Skeffington and her husband Shane returned from a Sunday afternoon grocery shopping trip to town to their Sligo home five years ago to discover their eldest son Shane Jnr (aged 19) who was on babysitting duty had stabbed his younger brother Brandon (aged 9) with a knife, leaving him fatally wounded. The young man then took his own life.