Saulite partner to be sentenced next week for children's abduction

The former partner of Latvian woman Baibe Saulite who was shot dead at her home in Swords in November will be sentenced next week by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the abduction of their children.

Hassan Hassan (aged 38) of Forestfield Road, Swords, pleaded guilty to two counts of abducting his children in December 2004. The then two-and-a-half year and 17-month-old boys were taken from Ireland to Syria where they were cared for by Hassan's mother until they returned to Ireland in September 2005.