Couple seem in courtroom charged with homicide of nurse in Co Down

Two males have been remanded in custody after showing earlier than a choose charged with the homicide of Karen Cummings in Co Down.

The 40-year-old youngsters’s nurse was discovered unresponsive Saturday night at a house within the Laurel Heights neighborhood of Banbridge and died a short while later.

Police stated the mom of two suffered head accidents.

Glenn Robert King, 32, of no fastened tackle in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and Kevin Paul McGuigan, 42, of Annacloy Park in Hillsborough, Co Down, appeared at Newry Magistrates’ Courtroom by way of video hyperlink on Wednesday morning, accused of his homicide.

McGuigan can also be charged with possession of a firearm, together with a double-barrel shotgun, and ammunition with intent to hazard life. He faces a 3rd rely of receiving stolen property, involving a double-barreled shotgun.

McGuigan was arrested on the scene on Saturday night, whereas King was detained within the Banbridge space on Sunday.

Neither man utilized for bail throughout the brief listening to earlier than District Choose Eamonn King.

Showing collectively by way of video hyperlink in the identical room within the PSNI critical crime room at Musgrave police station in Belfast, the lads spoke briefly at the beginning of the listening to to verify their names and dates of beginning.

When requested in the event that they understood the costs towards them, additionally they each stated “sure.”

A detective instructed the courtroom he may join the 2 defendants to the costs.

The lads’s attorneys instructed the choose they didn’t dispute the premise on which police linked their shoppers to the costs.

Authorized representatives additionally confirmed that not one of the accused would apply for bail.

The choose remanded the lads in custody to courtroom on January 9, once more by way of video hyperlink.