The jury in the Shane Clancy inquest returned an 'open verdict' following evidence given at Wicklow Coroner's Court on 15 April 2010 and the coroner's instruction that their choice of verdict had to be either suicide or an open verdict.
Earlier, expert witness Dr David Healy, Professor of Psychiatry at Cardiff University in Wales, told the court that behaviour such as suicidal or violent thinking or actions, seen in patients prescribed SSRIs, such as the Cipramil tablets taken by Mr Clancy, arose not from the patient's condition but from the drugs.
Leonie Fennell and her partner, Tony Donnelly, after the inquest
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