Overview
- Gardaí said the 25-year-old arrested at the scene has been charged and is due before Cork City District Court this afternoon.
- Stella Gallagher, 59, was pronounced dead at Cork University Hospital, while her husband Brian, 62, remains in a serious but stable condition after emergency surgery.
- The couple were attacked outside their Shrewsbury Downs home shortly after 9pm on Monday and were stabbed multiple times as they ran toward a neighbour’s house.
- A blood-stained kitchen knife was recovered, scenes were preserved for forensic examination, and an SIO, FLO, and incident room at Anglesea Street Garda Station have been established.
- Gardaí are appealing for witnesses and camera footage from Shrewsbury Downs between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, as a separate Hollyhill death of Mark O’Connell, 38, continues as a murder investigation with a file for the DPP.