Gardaí hope residents’ information leads to clues after fatal stabbing of child

Gardaí are hoping people in a south Dublin apartment complex heard or saw something that might provide key clues regarding the fatal stabbing of a child at his home.

Detectives are waiting for the results of DNA and fingerprint tests on a knife found at the apartment in Kimmage, which will direct the course of their homicide investigation.

The boy’s mother, aged 42, was also found with serious knife injuries at the apartment in the Riverside complex on Poddle Park.