'Suicide pact' blamed in deaths of couple found in Co Limerick house

The decomposing bodies of a fraudster grandmother and her innocent partner were found by a group of Travellers, who broke into a house in rural Limerick and discovered the two corpses writes David Raleigh.

Details of the discovery of the bodies of Julia Holmes (aged 63), and father-of-two Thomas Ruttle (aged 53), last year, were heard at their inquest today.