A CASTLEBAR TEENAGER HAS BEEN REMANDED IN CUSTODY AT SWINFORD COURT TODAY CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF HIS MOTHER.

THE 19-YEAR-OLD YOUTH WAS BROUGHT BEFORE A SITTING OF SWINFORD COURT TODAY CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF HIS MOTHER.

CELYN EADON FROM DERRYNACRIEVE, ISLANDEADY, CASTLEBAR, APPEARED BEFORE JUDGE MARY DEVINS.

 HE IS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF 46 YEAR OLD NOREEN KELLY AT DERRYNACRIEVE, ISLANDEADY, ON WEDNESDAY LAST, MARCH 9.

EVIDENCE OF ARREST, CHARGE AND CAUTION WAS GIVEN TO THE COURT BY DETECTIVE SERGEANT JAMES CARROLL WHO IS BASED AT CASTLEBAR GARDA STATION.

DETECTIVE  CARROLL SAID HE ARRESTED THE ACCUSED AT 9.15 P.M LAST NIGHT AND AT 10.20 P.M. HE HAD CHARGED HIM.

KELLIN EADON, HE SAID, HAD MADE NO REPLY TO THE CHARGE.

GARDA INSPECTOR MARTIN BYRNE APPLIED TO HAVE MR EADON REMANDED IN CUSTODY TO APPEAR AT HARRISTOWN DISTRICT COURT (CASTLEREA) ON TUESDAY NEXT, MARCH 18 FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE.

SOLICITOR FOR THE ACCUSED, MR AIDAN CROWLEY ASKED JUDGE DEVINS THAT HIS CLIENT  BE GIVEN IMMEDIATE PSYCHIATRIC ATTENTION ONCE HE WAS BROUGHT TO CASTLEREA PRISON.

ASKED BY THE JUDGE IF THERE WAS ANY REASON FOR THIS, MR. CROWLEY REPLIED THAT HE HAD KNOWN THE ACCUSED FOR A NUMBER OF MONTHS AND THERE HAD BEEN A PROGRESSIVE MENTAL DETERIORATION IN HIM. HE WAS IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION.

INSPECTOR BYRNE SAID THAT SHORTLY AFTER THE ACCUSED HAD BEEN ARRESTED, A LOCAL GP, DR. PATTEN, HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO CASTLEBAR GARDA STATION TO SEE HIM. HE HAD THEN BEEN BROUGHT TO MAYO GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN ASSESSED BY A DOCTOR IN CASUALTY.

 ON THE APPLICATION OF MR. CROWLEY, LEGAL AID WAS GRANTED TO CELYN EADON WHO IS UNEMPLOYED.