Scarlett Faulkner murder trial: She was 'never going to come out of coma', says pathologist

Woman suffered multiple forceful blows to her head with a blunt weapon that caused a severe, traumatic brain injury, court hears

Scarlett Faulkner: Died on April 13, 2026

Scarlett Faulkner died having suffered multiple forceful blows to her head with a blunt weapon that caused a severe, traumatic brain injury, a pathologist has told the trial of a woman and teenage girl who deny her murder.

Dr Margaret Bolster, the State pathologist, told Seoirse Ó Dúnlaing, prosecuting, that Ms Faulkner had suffered severe axonal injury, whereby the brain moved around in the skull, causing tearing of the nerve fibres and bruising.