A MAN has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the manslaughter of two Dublin women. Their decomposed remains were found during a Garda dig in west Dublin last summer.
Michael Bambrick (43) denied the murder of Patricia McGauley and Mary Cummins when he was arraigned in court yesterday morning, but he admitted their manslaughter.
Bambrick, formerly of St Ronan's Park, Clondalkin, Co Dublin, but now of no fixed abode, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Patricia McGauley, a mother of two, in Dublin on a date unknown between September 1st, 1991, and February 28th, 1992, but admitted her manslaughter.
He also denied the murder, but admitted the manslaughter, of Mary Cummins in Dublin on a date unknown between July 1st, 1992, and December 31st, 1993.
Mr Kevin Haugh SC, prosecuting, said the pleas were acceptable to the State. He said the defence wished to secure reports and was also anxious that all the evidence be heard in totality. The State was agreeable to this course.
Mr Patrick Gageby SC, defending, asked that sentence being deferred for some four weeks as there was difficulty in getting a psychologist Mr Justice Carney consented and adjourned the case for sentence on June 14th next. Bambrick was remanded in custody to that date.
Patricia McGauley disappeared from her home at St Ronan's Park, Clondalkin, in September 1991. Her two children, Adrienne (13) and Louise (6), are living with relatives. Last June human remains believed to be those of Ms McGauley were discovered during a planned Garda dig in Ronnnstown.
Mary Cummins (36), a mother of one from the Liberties in central Dublin, was last seen alive on July 23rd, 1992. Earlier that day she had collected her single parent's allowance and shopped in Meath Street with her daughter, Samantha, then aged seven.
In the later went with friends to pub Samantha that evening, as Ms Cummins was going out. A Garda dig discovered remains believed to be hers in Balgaddy last June.