Family of schizophrenic man sought help in weeks before he killed parents with axe

A man charged with murdering his parents at their home in Carndonagh, County Donegal, in October 2014 pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court in June 2016. Evidence presented during the trial established that Julian Cuddihy's family had actively sought psychiatric intervention in the weeks before the deaths of his mother Kathleen and father James. A detective garda from Buncrana…