Gardaí launch inquiry into violent death

GARDAÍ have launched a major inquiry after the death of a Cork widow who is believed to have been beaten and deliberately immersed in a bath of boiling water.

Bernadette Barnes, aged 47, who lived in Knocknaheeny before moving to Dublin some years ago, was found naked, scalded and covered in blood at her home in the capital on January 19.

She was discovered by binmen who were passing an alley near her flat at St Mary’s Terrace, off Dorset Street.