The trial of a Wexford woman and her partner has heard that the house where Evelyn Joel lived was dirty with beer cans and dinner plates on the floor.
Evelyn Joel, 58, died in hospital on 7 January, 2006, six days after ambulance crew found her in the upstairs bedroom of the house where she lived with her daughter in Enniscorthy.
37-year-old Eleanor Joel and her partner Jonathan Costen, 39, both deny the unlawful killing of Eleanor's mother.
They also deny a charge of reckless endangerment of Evelyn Joel.
Evelyn Joel died from pneumonia, complicating sepsis syndrome because of infected pressure sores from immobilisation caused by MS.
Wexford Circuit Criminal Court heard today from Evelyn's son, Liam, and his partner, Laura Kavanagh.
Ms Kavanagh described accompanying Eleanor Joel when she visited her mother at Wexford General Hospital.
She said: "It didn't look like her at all.... She was just pure skin and bone and her teeth were sticking out".
She also said the house in Cluain Dara where Evelyn Joel lived with her daughter, Eleanor, and John Costen, was dirty.
She said there were old dinner plates and cans on the floor.
However, she said the only time there would be a smell in the house was when there were rubbish bags in the kitchen.
Evelyn Joel's nephew, David Connolly, gave evidence of a "vile" smell in the upstairs of the house in Cluain Dara.
He said he visited around Christmas 2005 to drop off a present to his godson when he noticed the house was dirty.
He said he was put off going into the bedroom to see Evelyn Joel because of this smell.
