A woman who was being questioned over the death of a Somalian man whose headless body was found in Dublin’s Royal Canal was today released from Garda custody.

Gardaí investigating the death of a Somalian man, whose headless body was found in Dublin’s Royal Canal, were questioning a 50-year-old woman today after they charged another person with his murder.

The mother of a Somalian national, whose headless corpse was discovered in Dublin’s Royal Canal, may travel to Ireland to aid the garda investigation into her son’s death, it emerged today.