A medical expert has agreed that there was an "element of misfortune" involved in what turned out to be the fatal stabbing of a woman in Dublin.
She was giving evidence in the trial of a 16-year-old boy accused of murdering the woman as she made her way home from work on January 20th last year.
Dr Heidi Okkers carried out a post-mortem on Urantsetseg Tserendorj – three days after she was pronounced dead in the Mater hospital.
She told the jurors that Ms Tserendorj, who was also known as Urna, had a small cut just under her right ear lobe that damaged her carotid artery.
Such as this doesn’t cause immediate collapse, she said, but can result in the brain being deprived of blood and oxygen, which was the cause of death in this case, she concluded.
Urna’s husband, Ulambayer Surenkhor, told the court he rushed to Connolly Station to meet his wife after getting a distressed call from her at about 9.30pm that night.
She was rushed to hospital where the jurors heard her condition deteriorated. She was declared dead due to an irreversible loss of brain activity nine days later.
On Monday, the boy, who can’t be named because he’s under 18, pleaded guilty to her manslaughter but not guilty to murder.
