Child of mother killed in rural home requested coco pops after gardai found body, trial hears

A murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard evidence concerning the death of Valerie French Kilroy, a forty-one-year-old occupational therapist, discovered in a campervan at her home near Westport, County Mayo in June 2019. The Chief State Pathologist determined she died from ligature strangulation in association with blunt force trauma to the head and a stab wound to the neck, with defensive wounds also…