Supports to family likely to be investigated — Minister

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said the level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are likely to be investigated following his shocking death.

Gardaí continued to question the two-year-old’s mother yesterday, while a post mortem was conducted in Tallaght.

Hassan was found in an apartment in Ballybrack, south Dublin on Thursday afternoon. It is understood he had been stabbed in the neck with a scissors.