A home carer and self-described psychic medium has denied deceiving two siblings of €10,200 by telling them their deceased father told them to give her the money.
He said Ms Paget started talking about my father and then said: “Your father said you are to give me €10,000.” He said that Ms Paget asked him: “When are you getting the money” and told him: “If you don't, it will be a sin and the devil will get you.” His sister testified that she gave €200 to Ms Paget after the defendant told her during “a reading” that her deceased father had communicated with her and said that Ms Byrne should give her €200. The siblings first made a complaint first to the woman's employer and then later to gardai.
“Are you winding me up? 10,000 for a reading? That’s a lie...is this a joke?” she told gardai. She said she never asked either complainant for money.