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FORMER Killaloe-based doctor, Paschal Carmody is to face a retrial on 11 charges of obtaining money by false pretences from terminally ill cancer patients.
Ms Carmody (60), of Ballycugga- ran, Killaloe, went on trial at Ennis Circuit Court, earlier this year, ac- cused of 25 charges in total.
At the end of a five-week trial in July, he was found not guilty by a jury on six charges. The trial judge, Rory McCabe directed that he be found not guilty on eight charges, while the jury failed to agree on 11 Ol omen Nexoe
SW slow ret -LAKMM Wem A (oOo) Cou Koe ml py:(e.< to the Director of Public Prosecu- tions, who would decide if he was to be retried on the 11 outstanding charges. Limerick Circuit Court was told last Tuesday that Mr Carmody will face a retrial on the 11 charges. Judge Carroll Moran heard that the prosecution would be seeking to have these case heard in Dublin. This application will be heard in court in December. The 11 charges relate to sums amounting to more than ©30,000, obtained from three cancer patients and their families who visited his clinic in Killaloe, between Septem- ber 2001 and October 2002. They were John Sheridan from Kil- kenny; John James Gallagher from Westmeath and Conor O’Sullivan, a 15-year-old boy from Co Wexford. All three died within a relatively short period of time of receiving treatment at the East Clinic. Mr Carmody had denied obtaining money by falsely pretending that he would cure the terminally ill cancer patients through photodynamic ther- “lO ae a DADE