{"id":138138,"date":"2025-11-13T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:49:09","slug":"all-she-did-was-try-to-help-siblings-testify-that-brother-accused-of-killing-their-mother-was-abusive-to-her-and-once-broke-her-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138138\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All she did was try to help\u2019 \u2013 siblings testify that brother accused of killing their mother was abusive to her and once broke her jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The accused&#8217;s sister, Sharon, said her mother called her and told her Billy was \u201cpsychotic\u201d before she was found deadHis younger bother Shane said he lived in fear of Billy and often saw his mother with bruises<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miriam and Billy Burns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c9c19983-cdaa-4291-b172-a571b7db1d0b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Miriam and Billy Burns<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man told garda\u00ed, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t kill the b***h&#8221;, when they put an allegation to him that he had killed his 75-year-old mother, a Central Criminal Court jury heard this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The jury also heard that the accused man, Billy Burns (55), broke his mother Miriam Burns&#8217;s jaw in 1993 and often verbally abused her over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The accused&#8217;s sister, Sharon, said her mother called her and told her Billy was \u201cpsychotic\u201d before she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-138138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}