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17/01/2005
Garda investigating schoolboy's murder arrest man
Garda detectives have arrested a man for questioning in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Cork schoolboy, Robert Holohan.
The 20-year-old man was detained in the Midleton area on Sunday evening and taken to Cork Garda station where he will be questioned today (Monday). He may be held for up to 12 hours.
The body of the 11-year-old schoolboy was found on Wednesday, January 12, in dense undergrowth near to Inch Strand in east Cork about 12 miles from his home in Ballyedmond.
A post-mortem revealed that the boy had died from asphyxia but that he had not been sexually assaulted.
Robert had been missing since the early afternoon of Tuesday January 4 when he left home on his BMX-style bicycle.
At his funeral in Midleton hundreds of people lined the streets to watch as the cortege passed through the town to the service at the Holy Rosary Church.
(SP/MB)
The 20-year-old man was detained in the Midleton area on Sunday evening and taken to Cork Garda station where he will be questioned today (Monday). He may be held for up to 12 hours.
The body of the 11-year-old schoolboy was found on Wednesday, January 12, in dense undergrowth near to Inch Strand in east Cork about 12 miles from his home in Ballyedmond.
A post-mortem revealed that the boy had died from asphyxia but that he had not been sexually assaulted.
Robert had been missing since the early afternoon of Tuesday January 4 when he left home on his BMX-style bicycle.
At his funeral in Midleton hundreds of people lined the streets to watch as the cortege passed through the town to the service at the Holy Rosary Church.
(SP/MB)
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