Two manslaughter charges for woman in fatal fire case

A woman has been charged with two counts of manslaughter, and one of arson, following a fire in which two men died, in the Cork town of Mallow.

Rachel Crawshaw, aged 28, appeared before Mallow District Court yesterday. Details of her arrest and caution were heard.

She faces a charge that between March 12 and 13, inclusive, in 2014, she unlawfully killed John Palmer at apartment 24, Granary Court, St Joseph’s Road, in Mallow. She faces another charge that, on the same dates and at the same location, she unlawfully killed another man, Greg Lonergan. The third charge is that she committed arson at the Granary Court apartment.