The trial of a Somali man who is charged with murdering Mary Ward in her Belfast home almost two years ago will commence next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ahmed Abdurahim (33) of Lord Edward Street, Dublin 2, denies murdering the young mother with whom he had been involved in a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n
Ms Ward\u2019s remains were found at her home on Melrose Street, South Belfast, in September 2024.<\/p>\n
Today, Mr Justice Paul McDermott, sitting at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, gave the trial a start date of the 11th of January 2027.<\/p>\n
At a previous mention date, defending counsel Oisin Clarke BL told the court that his client was \u201cnot engaging\u201d with a psychiatrist acting on behalf of his defence team; however, at a more recent mention, Justice McDermott heard that this obstacle had \u201cmelted away\u201d.<\/p>\n
The accused, who came to Ireland in 2019 and previously lived in Kenya, was denied bail at a previous court appearance after Ms Justice Caroline Biggs deemed that he was likely to attempt to evade justice.<\/p>\n
He denies the charge of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial of a Somali man who is charged with murdering Mary Ward in her Belfast home almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,241888,21556,43],"class_list":["post-573294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-ward","tag-murder","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573294","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=573294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}