A man has won his Supreme Court appeal over his conviction for the murder of his mother in a “frenzied knife attack”. Mr Eadon was aged 19 in 2011 when he stabbed his 46-year-old mother Noreen Kelly, a lone parent from Islandeady, Castelbar, Co. Mayo, 19 times. A five-judge Supreme Court unanimously ruled today his murder conviction was unsafe because the trial judge’s instruction to the jury on intoxication and specific intention was inadequate and also wrongly instructed them that intoxication is never a defence in law. Mr Eadon killed his mother in a "frenzied knife attack" on March 9, 2011, at about 1.30am. It noted, in the week before his mother’s killing, Mr Eadon was suffering from hallucinations and paranoid delusions and “behaving most strangely”.

Source: Irish Examiner December 20, 2019 12:22 UTC