Joleen Corr Timeline
May 2013 - Joleen meets Michael O'Connor for the first time in Ormeau Park in south Belfast and the pair begin dating
October 2013 - Joleen finds out she is pregnant
July 2014 - Joleen gives birth to a baby boy
May 2015 - Joleen reveals to her mother that she is the victim of domestic abuse
June 2015 - Joleen and her son move to a new home in Downpatrick
November 25 2016 - Joleen and her son travelled from their new home in Downpatrick up to west Belfast to see her mother, Carol Corr at her home in Beechmount. The pair discussed plans for a family Christmas and Joleen put and decorated her mother's Christmas Tree.
November 29 2016 - Joleen and her family go to The West Club on the Falls Road in west Belfast to celebrate her 26th birthday.
December 1 - Joleen and her son wave goodbye to Carol as they leave her home to return to their home in Downpatrick.
December 2 2016 - Joleen Corr is found in her Thomas Russell Park home having suffered a horrific beating. An ambulance carrying the mother-of-one to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is forced to stop mid-journey to place the 26-year-old on life support. She arrives at the RVH where doctors discover she has suffered a catalogue of injuries including a catastrophic brain injury, finding 52 bruises from her head to her feet, and numerous impacts to the head. Fore the next six months, Joleen is treated in a nerurological unity in the RVH. Michael O'Connor is arrested by police in the Ormeau Road area of south Belfast.
May 2017 - Doctors tell Carol Corr that the left side of her daughter's brain is dead and its stem damaged, meaning it was unlikely she will ever recover from the head injuries. She is transferred to Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast where she is to be treated in a specialist brain injury clinic.
April 2018 - It is agreed that the 27-year-old’s treatment is to be withdrawn after medics tell her family "nothing more can be done". The young woman is later moved to the Northern Ireland Hospice where she passed away on April 26 in her mother's arms. Her death leads to calls for more to be done for victims of domestic abuse.
May 2018 - Mourners at Joleen's funeral at St Paul's Church on Cavendish Street in west Belfast are told the young woman was "a great mother" who's "greatest success, her greatest joy" was her son.
Read more:
- Second victim of Michael O'Connor tells of her life of `complete hell' with him
- Joleen Corr's mum: I believe he jumped all over her. She had 52 bruises from her head to her feet
