No criminal charges after fatal fire

No one will face criminal charges following a house fire which claimed the life of a young mother and her nephew in Cork last Easter.

No criminal charges after fatal fire

Cork City Coroner’s Court was told yesterday that the Director of Public Prosecutions had considered the Garda file into the deaths of Helena O’Dwyer, 25, and her five-year-old nephew, Ryan O’Dwyer-Hayes, who died in the blaze in Helena’s parents’ home in Mahon last April.

Inspector Declan O’Sullivan told city coroner Dr Myra Cullinane the DPP had directed there would be no prosecution in relation to the matter. The decision clears the way for a full hearing of an inquest into the tragic deaths.

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