Emma McCrory

A man has been remanded in custody after gardai charged him with the murder of a mother of two who died in a house fire in north Dublin three months ago.

“In reply to the charge after caution, he had no reply,” Detective Garda Singleton said. He applied for a remand in custody. He said his client had a “history of mental health difficulties”, and asked the court to recommend that Mr Turner receive a psychiatric assessment in custody. The District Court cannot hear a bail application in a case of suspected murder which requires a High Court ruling. Dressed in a blue hooded top, jeans and brown shoes, he sat silently at the side of the courtroom during the brief hearing. Her body was taken to the mortuary in Whitehall, north Dublin, for a post-mortem, and her funeral took place a week later.