Man dies in suspected ‘honour killing’

A MAN stabbed so violently — he was clinically dead before being resuscitated by paramedics — has died in hospital in what may be a so-called ‘honour killing’.

The victim, 32-year-old Muhammad Aris who was originally from Pakistan, lost his fight for life at St Vincent’s Hospital where he had been treated following the stabbing at an apartment in Drogheda on Thursday.

Mr Aris, understood to have worked in a branch of Tesco in Drogheda, and a 39-year-old woman, also from Pakistan, were stabbed in the attack at the fifth floor apartment in the Fitzwilliam Court complex in the Co Louth town.