{"id":419477,"date":"2026-04-27T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:55:13","slug":"man-33-charged-over-death-of-his-mother-in-galway-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419477\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (33) charged over death of his mother in Galway \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with the death of his mother in an assault at the weekend in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Milena Ostojic (65), of 52 Cla\u00ed M\u00f3r, Ballybrit, on the east of Galway city, died at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway-university-hospitals\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway-university-hospitals\/\">University Hospital Galway<\/a> in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She sustained serious wounds after being assaulted at her home on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her son Dubravko Ostojic, of no fixed abode, was brought before a special sitting of Galway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\">District Court<\/a> on Sunday evening where he was refused bail by Judge Gerard Furlong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ostojic is charged with assaulting his mother. He did not speak during the brief court hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A bail application by solicitor John Martin was refused on a number of grounds by the judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Det Gda Gerry Carroll said the accused was charged at Galway Garda station at 5.47pm on Sunday. He said that the investigation into the death of Milena Ostojic was continuing and that further charges may follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Furlong remanded the accused in custody to appear by videolink at Galway District Court on Monday morning. He requested that Ostojic be provided with all appropriate medical and psychiatric attention upon arrival at his place of detention and that a psychiatric report be compiled as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with the death of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,4500,119997,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-419477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-district-court","tag-galway","tag-galway-university-hospitals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419477","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=419477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}