Convicted killer Kelly Noble not in court over alleged assault as solicitors say she's in hospital
Exclusive: Noble, who previously served time for stabbing a young mother to death in front of her children, was due to appear before Dublin District Court on Wednesday.
Convicted killer Kelly Nobel was due in court for allegedly assaulting and causing harm to her son’s girlfriend.
Noble (39), who previously served time for stabbing a young mother to death in front of her children, was due to appear before Dublin District Court on Wednesday.
She was charged with assault causing harm to Chloe Eillson on November 2, 2023, at Hogan Place in Dublin 2. The offence is contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997.
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However, Noble was not present in court today as her solicitors John Shanley said she was in hospital. The solicitor told Judge Paula Murphy he had no further information about why his client was in hospital.
Judge Murphy asked if the woman Noble was charged for allegedly attacking is her son's girlfriend. Noble’s solicitor confirmed this.
The accused was due to either enter a plea or to fix a date for the hearing of the case today. As she did not show, it has been adjourned to November 27.
Noble has previously served four and a half years of a six-year sentence for manslaughter. She stabbed Emma McLoughlin (19) to death in front of Ms McLoughlin’s children outside Pat’s Supermarket in Laytown, Co Meath in 2006.
Noble’s mother Jacqui served a murder sentence for hiring a man to kill her abusive partner Derek Benson, who was hacked to death with a sword in Ballymun in 2000.
Jacqui, from Ballymun, north Dublin, was jailed for life in 2004 for paying a doorman to kill Derek Benson, the father of her only child, in May 2000. She was freed from the women’s Dóchas Centre in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin in 2018, after serving 14 years.
Her trial heard how Jacqui Noble had lived for several years with Benson, who regularly beat and raped her in front of their child. During the 30-day trial, the jury heard evidence of shocking and extreme physical, sexual and emotional abuse against her for nearly two decades.
The court heard she could not take any more abuse and hatched a plan with doorman Paul Hopkins to kill Benson after she drugged him. Noble had inherited money and claimed Benson was trying to take the money from her.
On May 11, 2000, two days before the murder, the mother met Hopkins whom she knew and got sleeping tablets from him and a phone.
The court heard Noble had drugged Benson before Hopkins arrived with a samurai sword and killed him. She was freed in 2018 after then Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan signed off on her release.
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