{"id":64666,"date":"2025-10-07T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:10:13","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-emma-mccrory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64666\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty to murder of Emma McCrory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman who was found after a house fire in Dublin almost three years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">George Turner, 55, from Fairview Avenue in the city, was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He will be sentenced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Emma McCrory, a mother-of-two in her 40s, was found dead at her home on Howth Road, Clontarf, on 15 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cw084zedlk5o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Turner was charged with murder in March 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">RT\u00c9 reports that at Dublin District Court, his solicitor had requested a psychiatric assessment for his client, stating that he had a history of mental illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He was remanded in custody before Monday&#8217;s guilty plea and faces a mandatory life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman who was found after a house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-64666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666","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=64666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}