Woman in throes of 'psychotic state' when she stabbed her 94-year-old father, court hears

State alleges accused was in the throes of a psychotic or mental state where she thought God was instructing her that the person she was seeing in her house 'was not her dad' but someone who took his form and she was to stab him

Court heard there would be no issue about Patrick Flood's cause of death and the issue would be whether the accused was insane at the time she stabbed her father in the stomach.

A woman was in the throes of a psychotic state when she fatally stabbed her 94-year-old father in the stomach on his birthday in their Wexford home as she thought the voice of God was instructing her that someone had taken his form, a jury has heard.

It was during the opening of the trial of murder-accused Julie Flood at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday that a prosecuting barrister said the experts in the case agreed the accused fell within the legal definition of someone who was insane when she stabbed her father.