{"id":612772,"date":"2026-09-03T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612772\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:18:09","slug":"man-33-charged-with-murder-of-his-mother-in-galway-city-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612772\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (33) charged with murder of his mother in Galway city \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 33-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering his mother at her home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a> in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dubravko Ostojic was previously charged with seriously assaulting Milena Ostojic at a house they shared at  Cla\u00ed M\u00f3r, Ballybrit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 65-year-old woman died on April 25th  at University Hospital Galway.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At Galway District Court on Wednesday, Det Garda Gerry Carroll gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution of the accused. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said Ostojic made no reply when  charged after caution  with the murder of his mother on April 24th contrary to common law.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Solicitor John Martin confirmed to Judge Fiona Lydon that the accused had good English and did not require an interpreter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said an application for free legal aid would be parked until the solicitors\u2019 dispute over fees is resolved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda Sgt Claire Heneghan told the court  the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had directed trial by indictment in the Central Criminal Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She said the DPP had also directed the withdrawal of a Section 3 assault causing harm offence, which the defendant had been charged with last April.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge remanded the accused in custody to appear before Galway District Court again on  September 7th, via video-link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering his mother at her home in Galway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-612772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612772","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=612772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}