Convicted killer Kelly Noble and her son Kye are to face a district court trial on a charge of assault 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, entered a not guilty plea at Dublin District Court on Wednesday to assault causing harm to Chloe Ellison.
That offence, which is contrary to Section 3 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, is alleged to have happened on November 2, 2023 at Hogan Place in Dublin 2.
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Noble’s son Kye is also facing a similar district court trial for the same offence.
Kye, 22, of Bow Bridge House, Bow Street in Dublin 8, appeared alongside Ms Noble before Judge Shalom Binchy on Wednesday.
He also pleaded not guilty to the assault of Ms Ellison causing her harm on the same date at the same place.
At a previous court sitting the judge was informed the Director of Public Prosecutions directed summary disposal of the case which means it can stay at District Court level, where the penalties upon conviction are less than those at Circuit Court level.
It was also confirmed at a previous court hearing that Ms Ellison is Ms Noble’s son’s girlfriend.
On Wednesday when the case was called, solicitor for both Kelly and Kye, Mr John Shanley, was asked by Judge Binchy if his clients were in court.
He replied ‘Yes’ and when Kye’s name was called, Kelly said: “That’s me son, he’s my co-accused.” When asked by the judge how they are both pleading to the charge, Mr Shanley said both his clients are pleading not guilty.
Mr Shanley said the case would take about an hour to hear and Judge Shanley remanded both Kelly and Kye on continuing bail until January 6 when the case will be in for mention.
Mr Shanley said Ms Noble has other public order matters which she is entering guilty pleas to.
Those offences happened on June 16, 2020 on Dame Street, Dublin 2 and include being intoxicated to an extent she might endanger herself or any other person in her vicinity as well as engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
She has also pleaded guilty to spitting in the back seat of an unmarked patrol car contrary to Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act on the same date. She also pleaded guilty to resisting arrest on the same date.
Mr Shanley asked Judge Binchy if the guilty plea charges could go back to a date in February as Ms Noble “is not long after having a baby and wants to get testimonials together and prove she is not using drugs.”
Judge Binchy adjourned those charges to February 12 when the full facts will be heard. Ms 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.
Her 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. Jacqui 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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