Cavan murder-suicide: 'More needs to be done in order to learn from these awful tragedies'

Bereaved mother calls on the government to change laws on partner’s access to mental health treatment, writes Joe Leogue.

A WOMAN whose two daughters and husband died in a murder suicide in 2010 has called on the Government to amend legislation to enable spouses and partners have a greater knowledge of, and involvement in, their loved ones’ mental health treatment.

Una Butler’s husband John took his own life after he killed his daughters Zoe (six) and Ella (two) in the family’s Ballycotton, Co Cork, home in November 2010.