The Irish nanny whose murder case was dramatically dropped last night has said she “can’t stop crying out of joy”.
Aisling Brady McCarthy, from Cavan, had been in prison since 2013 when she was charged with killing one-year-old Rehma Sabir on the child’s birthday, January 14. In May she was released but placed on house arrest, where she wore a GPS tracking device to monitor her movements. She is said to be keen to return to Ireland as soon as possible.
The nanny’s defence team say that Rehma was not in the care of Brady McCarthy (37) when her injuries occurred. Records show that the child had travelled to London, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with her Pakistani parents in the weeks leading up to her death. The defence claim the injuries Rehma died from were caused during this time.
Yesterday Massachusetts state’s medical examiner reversed its findings based on lack of evidence, saying the child’s medical history “could have made her prone to easy bleeding with relatively minor trauma.”
Speaking about the toll the case has taken on her client, Brady McCarthy’s lawyer Melinda Thompson told the Irish Mirror:
“She’s relieved, scared, and absolutely thankful to the medical examiner’s office for redoing this review and quite frankly finding the truth.
“It was a tragedy that a child died of what appeared to be natural causes.”“This was an absolute nightmare. It changes a person. She can’t get those years back.”
Rehma’s father Sameer Sabir, a medical device entrepreneur and her mother Nada Siddiqui have since set up a foundation called the Rehma Fund for Children to help parents to deal with the emotional trauma of a child’s illness.
