Midnight deadline on shooting charge
Following a telephone call, emergency services and gardaí discovered Mr Wrench in an upstairs bedroom of his house in Dromiscane, a rural area four miles outside Millstreet.
He had been shot in the upper body. It is understood his two children from a previous relationship, aged five and 10, were close to the house at the time.
The woman in her 30s, who has been named locally as Eve Walker and who is originally from Northern Ireland, was arrested a short time later at the scene.
She has been held at Kanturk garda station since approximately midnight on the night of the incident under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939. The maximum permissible time gardaí can detain her is 72 hours from the time she was arrested.
At that point she must be charged or released.
A file on the case is being prepared by gardaí and the Director of Public Prosecutions will be consulted to decide whether the woman should be brought to court.
Meanwhile, gardaí confirmed the post mortem on Mr Wrench’s body was completed yesterday at Cork University Hospital by Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster. The findings have been withheld.
His relatives have been contacted and can take now charge of his body.
Yesterday, Superintendent Tom Duggan, the man leading the investigation, confirmed the house in which Mr Wrench died and which has been cordoned off since Monday, would be unsealed by today.
