Dead fraudster may end up in pauper’s grave

Julia Holmes’ odyssey of international fraud may end in a pauper’s grave in Co Limerick.

Her body and that of her partner Thomas Ruttle were stumbled upon by three burglars who broke into their family home at Boolaglass, near Askeaton on Monday.

The badly decomposed bodies lay beside one another in an upstairs bedroom. Gardaí yesterday positively identified the male remains as those of Mr Ruttle.