Cork father suffocated one daughter and strangled other

A 43-YEAR-OLD Corkman suffocated one daughter and strangled the other before deliberately killing himself in a horrific crash.

Cork father suffocated one daughter and strangled other

A postmortem carried out yesterday on the bodies of Ella Butler, 2, and her sister, Zoe, 6, concluded both died of asphyxiation.

The body of their father, John Butler, had to be identified through dental records.

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