Man dead in Tipp murder zone

A 21-YEAR-OLD found stabbed to death in Tipperary had been arrested just hours earlier for causing a disturbance at a bonfire.

Man dead in Tipp murder zone

Jamie Lonergan, 21, from 8 Cooleens Close, Clonmel was arrested around 10pm Thursday and brought to the local garda station. He was questioned and released without charge.

Five hours later, gardai were called to waste ground just behind the local psychiatric hospital. There they found him lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds to his face and body. They immediately launched a murder investigation.

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