Gardai arrest four in murder investigation
CRIMECALL APPEAL KENNETH'S REMAINS WERE FOUND IN DUBLIN DITCH
Wednesday March 03 2010
GARDAI INVESTIGATING the murder of Kenneth Fetherston last week arrested four people including a 47 year old Gorey woman, and her two sons.
Kenneth Fetherstone's car was found abandoned on the southbound layby of the Gorey Bypass last September. It had bloodstains on the back bumper and in the boot. His skeletal remains and his clothes were discovered in a boggy ditch off Military Road in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin last month.
An appeal for information on the circumstances of his murder was made on RTE's Crimecall programme last Tuesday night.
The following day, a man, aged 48 years, was arrested in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. A woman, aged 47, was arrested in Gorey, also on Wednesday, on suspicion of withholding information about the crime.
They were detained in Tallaght Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 and Section 30 Offences Against the State Act 1939 respectively.
Two further arrests were made on Thursday, in Dublin. Two men were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984. One man, aged 29, was detained at Tallaght Garda Station, and the other, aged 23, was detained at Rathfarnham Garda Station. It was reported that the two men are brothers, and the other two people arrested are their parents.
It is believed Kenneth Fetherston (26), the father of a threeyear-old girl, was killed because he asked for the repayment of money he had lent to someone.
The woman arrested in Gorey was released without charge on Friday afternoon, and a file is being prepared for the DPP.
