Daughter quizzed over death of Evelyn Joel

THE daughter of a woman who died weighing just six-and-a-half stone and the daughter’s 34-year-old partner were released without charge last night after 12 hours of garda questioning about her death.

Thirty-one-year-old Eleanor Joel and her partner, Jon Costin, were arrested at 10.15am yesterday by gardaí probing the events surrounding the death on January 7 of 59-year-old Wexford woman, Evelyn Joel. The couple were brought to the local garda station. Their initial period of six hours' detention under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act was extended at 4.15pm yesterday as gardaí probed the events leading up to Evelyn Joel's death in hospital from malnutrition and dehydration.

The arrests and questioning under Section 18 of the Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act are the first in the garda probe which began when Evelyn Joel passed away on January 7. It is understood that no further arrests are imminent.