{"id":609276,"date":"2026-07-29T02:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609276\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:52:14","slug":"mary-ward-murder-trial-to-commence-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609276\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ward murder trial to commence next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Ms Ward\u2019s remains were found at her home on Melrose Street, South Belfast, in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,257294,3800,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-609276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-mary-ward","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117001005048984072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}