Bloodstained woman found naked on street told garda: 'I killed my mother'

Accused was suffering from a mental disorder when she fatally stabbed her mother, court heard

Moire Bergin, 47, with an address at Seville Place in Dublin 1, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of her elderly mother Mary Bergin in her home at First Avenue, Seville Place in Dublin 1 on April 13, 2022.

A bloodstained woman who was found naked on a Dublin street after fatally stabbing her 76-year-old mother told a garda at the scene: "I killed my mother, I killed her, she is inside covered in blood.” 

It was during the opening of the Central Criminal Court trial of murder-accused Moire Bergin on Tuesday that a prosecuting barrister said the consultant psychiatrists for both the State and defence were in agreement the defendant was suffering from a mental disorder when she fatally stabbed her mother to death.