Man who killed parents believed he was "sending them to heaven", trial hears

A man from Carndonagh in County Donegal stood trial at the Central Criminal Court in June 2016 charged with the murder of his parents at their home in Churchtown in October 2014. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to both counts. The accused admitted carrying out the killings but argued that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time, experiencing severe delusions and auditory hallucinations…