A legal academic and trainee solicitor has appeared in court charged with the murder of a finance professor.
Dr Daire McCormack-George, 29, appeared at Dublin District Court on Saturday morning.
He is charged with the murder of Professor Scott George at the pensioner’s home on Tobersool Lane, near Balbriggan in north County Dublin on Thursday evening.
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Dr McCormack-George, with an address at Cabra Road, Phibsboro, Dublin is a trainee solicitor in the city. He was previously an assistant law lecturer at Technological University Dublin. And he has a doctorate in law from Trinity College Dublin, as well as a degree in the same subject from there.
He also has another degree in law from the University of Oxford. Scott George, 76, was a Professor of Finance at a university in Shanghai, China, and was also a company director.
Garda Ultan McElroy told Judge Wlliam Aylmer he arrested Dr Daire McCormack-George in Balbriggan Garda Station at 10.42pm on Friday.
He said Dr McCormack-George, who wore a navy fleece, grey bottoms and white runners in court, was then charged with murder there at 11.28pm.
“He made no reply and was handed a true copy of the charge sheet,” Garda McElroy said.
The district court does not have the power to deal with matters of bail in a murder case and Mr McCormack-George was remanded in custody. He will appear again at Cloverhill District Court via video link on December 20.
Defence solicitor Danny Nolan told the court that Dr McCormack-George has been diagnosed with a mental health issue but has not received his medication in a number of days.
He said his client was anxious to receive his medication. Judge Aylmer granted the accused legal aid and directed that he receive immediate psychiatric assessment and treatment that may be required.
The accused said nothing during the three minute hearing.
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