A 19 YEAR old man has appeared in court accused of stabbing an Irish nurse to death on Christmas Day.
As Nathan Ward was being led away to the cells following the brief hearing at Craigavon Magistrates' Court, Charlotte Reat - whose mother Jayne Toal Reat he is alleged to have murdered - had to be physically restrained as she leapt forward towards the dock shouting “it’s not fair, it’s not fair."
According to the Belfast Telegraph, Ms Reat had a stitched wound over her right eye, and was held back and comforted by friends and relatives, telling her “it's not worth it."
A man in the packed public gallery also had to be restrained by uniform police and court security staff.
Ward, who appeared in the dock with both arms in plaster in slings, was charged with the murder of Jayne Toal Reat on December 25 this year and the attempted murders of her daughter 21-year-old Charlotte Reat and his own father Joseph Tweedie on the same date.
Jayne Toal Reat, 43, a nurse at Craigavon Area Hospital, died after an incident at a house in Mornington, Lisburn, on December 25.
In court, Detective Inspector Copeland said she believed she could connect Ward to the offences and as defence barrister Joel Lindsay had no application for bail, District Judge Rosie Watters remanded the alleged killer into custody to appear again at Lisburn Court on 8 January via videolink.
