Postmortems carried out on a couple found dead in a house in Limerick have failed to identify the cause of their deaths, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The Irish Food Awards say that tests carried out on a honey brand submitted for its consideration by a convicted con artist and her partner — who were found dead in their Limerick home in May — show the product could have come from Ireland.

The final sad chapter in the double suicide of a couple in Co Limerick was concluded yesterday when the body of international fraudster Julia Holmes was cremated at Little Island Crematorium in Cork.

Mourners at the funeral of Thomas Ruttle, the 56-year-old Co Limerick man who died in a suicide pact with his partner, Julia Holmes, 63, were told yesterday this was not the time for blame and anger.

Details of the final chapter of the Thomas Ruttle/Julia Holmes saga unfolded last night.

Funeral arrangements for Thomas Ruttle, who was found dead with convicted fraudster Julia Holmes in Co Limerick last week, are expected to be finalised today.

Friends of Thomas Ruttle had become concerned that his fraudster partner, Julia Holmes, had been trying in recent months to sell his family home in Co Limerick and move to Spain.

Julia Holmes’ odyssey of international fraud may end in a pauper’s grave in Co Limerick.

Gardaí have confirmed a body found lying on a bed decomposing next to the body of con woman Julia Holmes, is that of her partner Thomas Ruttle.

The couple found dead in a Co Limerick farmhouse on Monday are likely to have separate funerals, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Gardai have confirmed members of a criminal gang who broke into a farmhouse and discovered the decomposing corpses of a fraudster and her partner, are not likely to face charges of breaking and entering until the investigation into the couple's deaths is concluded.

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Three members of the Travelling community who discovered the bodies of Thomas Ruttle and Julia Holmes during a break-in to the Ruttle home early on Monday are expected to be charged with attempted burglary.

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The violent deaths of a Co Limerick couple took a new twist last night, as Marie Cassidy, the State pathologist, was unable to identify either victim or the causes of death.

A con artist with a number of known aliases, Julia Holmes drew the attention of authorities here, in the North, and in the US where she perpetrated a number of frauds, duping people out of hundreds of thousands of euro.

Shocked community say Julia Holmes seemed to arrive out of the blue more than two years ago, writes Midwest Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe