MAN ACCUSED OF STABBING YOUNG MOTHER TO DEATH
Defendant remanded in custody
A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of a young mother of two.
Lithuanian Edmundas Dauksa, 48, is accused of killing 31-year-old Ingrida Maciokaite, in Dundalk, Co Louth, on Tuesday. She suffered stab wounds
Garda Joe Bell told the town’s district court yesterday he arrested and cautioned the accused.
He also told the hearing he charged Dauksa at 10.38pm on Wednesday.
Judge Conal Gibbons heard the defendant did not reply when he was charged at Dundalk Garda station.
Dauksa, a former shell fisherman, wore a blue hoodie and grey tracksuit bottoms.
He sat staring straight ahead and did not speak during the short hearing as he listened to an interpreter.
His defence counsel applied for legal aid and said his client had been working as a fisherman but not earning a lot of money.
The defence also asked the judge to direct his client receive “appropriate medical care” while in custody.
The solicitor added: “I am applying for legal aid – his occupation is a fisherman and he once ran a business, he would have been a shell fisherman. He is a suitable candidate for legal aid.”
Judge Gibbons said: “Due to the severity of the charge he is entitled to legal aid.
“I can’t direct to have medical aid but I can recommend appropriate medical care be given to the accused.”
The judge remanded Dauksa to appear via video link from Cloverhill District Court in Dublin next Thursday. Mum-of-two Ingrida was fatally injured after she was knifed outside an apartment block on Linen Hall Street. A crowd gathered on the street outside the court yesterday as Daukas was taken to prison on remand.
They shouted in Lithuanian and English as the garda car was driven away.