Gardaí in west Cork were last night continuing to question two men arrested in connection with the murder of a 37-year-old Englishman whose body was found in a slurry tank at a farm near Dunmanway last week.
Detectives arrested the men, aged 24 and 35, at two locations in the Dunmanway area between 8.30am and 9.50am yesterday and took them to Bandon Garda station for questioning about the death of Garry Bull. The two men were arrested under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.
Yesterday's arrests bring to six the number arrested by officers probing the death of Mr Bull, a member of the New Age Traveller community in west Cork who had been living for the past three years in a mobile home at Kilmichael near Dunmanway.
Earlier gardaí had arrested three women in Dublin and a man in Co Waterford in relation to the death of Mr Bull, who was last seen alive around September 23rd and whose body was found in a slurry tank on a farm at Shanlaragh, Dunmanway by gardaí in a planned search last Thursday.
A 19-year-old woman was released without charge on Saturday night, as was a 22-year-old man arrested in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. The other two women, aged 42 and 32, were released without charge on Sunday.
A file is to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A postmortem by Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster revealed that Mr Bull had died from severe head injuries.
