Mum quizzed over death

Gardaí will today resume questioning a 43-year-old mother in connection with the death of her only child at a house in North Cork.

Wed, 05 Sep, 2012 - 01:00
Sean O’Riordan and Niall Murray

Diane Ward was arrested at Cork University Hospital yesterday after an autopsy revealed her son Anthony, 8, had been asphyxiated at their home in Charleville.

Ms Ward had been receiving medical care at CUH since gardaí found her in “a very distressed state” at the house in Harrison Place on Monday.

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