Mother of domestic murder victim calls for helpline for people with homicidal thoughts

Maria Dempsey says "there's no shame in having thoughts of harming people, but there is shame in murdering somebody." Picture: RollingNews.ie 

The mother of a domestic violence victim has called for a helpline to be set up for people who are having "intrusive or homicidal" thoughts to be able to talk about them "without feeling shame".

Maria Dempsey's daughter Alicia Brough was just 20 years old when she was stabbed to death in Limerick by John Geary in 2010.