Smoke inhalation killed mum and son

A fire which killed a mother and son has been described as a tragic accident.

Michelle Gilbert, 28, and her six-year-old son Jack, were discovered in the same bedroom by firefighters who were called to their home in the Canterbrook Estate, on Navan’s Trim Road, on Saturday afternoon.

Preliminary investigations suggest a small fire began in a sofa in a downstairs sitting room and that the smoke created by the fire, travelled upstairs and into the bedrooms.