He has been a person of interest to gardaí since the murder investigation was commenced last month. The man was arrested on Saturday morning and was taken for questioning to Dundrum Garda station, where the investigation team is based. While the postmortems on the children’s remains confirmed somebody had murdered them using ligatures, it was not clear if Ms Banu had been murdered. Neighbours tried to contact Ms Banu but were unsuccessful and so decided to ring gardai and report their concerns. Gardaí were also focused on establishing who visited the house around the time Ms Banu and her children died there, with CCTV and phone records being reviewed.

Source: The Irish Times November 28, 2020 09:44 UTC