File prepared as three freed in O'Reilly case

Gardaí investigating the murder of north Co Dublin woman Rachel O'Reilly are this morning preparing a file for the Director of…

Gardaí investigating the murder of north Co Dublin woman Rachel O'Reilly are this morning preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The file will be forwarded to the DPP "in due course", gardaí said last night, after they released two men and a woman questioned in relation to the killing.

The first man, aged in his thirties, was arrested in north Dublin at 10.30 a.m. yesterday morning was held in Drogheda Garda station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

He was questioned for 12 hours about the killing but walked free at about 10.30 p.m. He made no comment to a group of waiting reporters.

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The other man (44) was arrested on Tuesday in the Ballyfermot area at around 10 a.m. He and a woman (36), arrested in Dundrum at the same time, were questioned on lesser charges of withholding information in the case. They were also released last night.

Ms O'Reilly was found in a bedroom at her house by her mother, Ms Rose Callely, who went to her daughter's home after Ms O'Reilly failed to collect one of her two children from creche.

A post-mortem indicated she had received several blows to the head with a blunt instrument.

There were no signs of a struggle between Ms O'Reilly and her attacker, and while the house had been disturbed, indicating a possible break-in, the dead woman's family have said they believe this may have been staged and that Ms O'Reilly was probably killed by somebody known to her.

Money in Ms O'Reilly's purse was untouched.

Patrick  Logue

Patrick Logue

Patrick Logue is Digital Editor of The Irish Times