Man charged and due in court following death of woman in Cork

The 38-year-old woman has been named locally as Deepa Dinamani, who moved to Ireland from India just a few months ago

 A Garda cordon in position at a house at Cardinal Court, Wilton Cork after the body of a female was found shortly after 10pm on Saturday night after emergency services were called. Picture: Larry Cummins

A man is due to appear in court on Sunday morning following the death of a woman in Cork at the weekend.

Gardaí have charged the man, in his 40s, following a fatal assault at a house in Wilton on Friday evening.

He is due to appear before a special sitting of Cork City District Court on Sunday.

The 38-year-old woman has been named locally as Deepa Dinamani, a native of Kerala in southern India, who moved to Ireland just a few months ago.

She was the mother of a five-year-old boy who was not in the house at the time of the incident.

Emergency services rushed to the scene at Cardinal Court in Wilton, on the southside of the city, after the alarm was raised shortly after 10pm. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. 

It is understood she was found in a bedroom in her home. Her body remained at the property overnight on Friday and was removed to the nearby Cork City Morgue at Cork University Hospital on Saturday morning.

An autopsy was conducted by Dr Linda Mulligan.

A 41-year-old man was arrested at the scene on Friday under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and questioned at Togher Garda Station.