JAILED MERVUE WOMAN WHO KILLED NEIGHBOUR HAS BABY

Date Published: 01-Sep-2008

A Mervue woman who was jailed this summer for 9 years for stabbing her neighbour to death in a drunken row over a dog has given birth to a baby girl.26 year-old Una Black from Mervue killed 42 year old John Malone at Walter Macken flats on the 3rd of December 2006.Her trial was due to start in Galway earlier this year , she fled to Wales but returned a short time later and was due to go on trial in Dublin when she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.At the end of July a heavily pregnant Ms Black was jailed for 9 years.She gave birth to a baby girl in the Rotunda last night and the child can stay with her for 12 months at the women's prison the Dóchas centre, after which time its expected a family member will care for her.