A woman (32) has been charged with the murder of another woman in west Dublin on Christmas Day.
Greta Dudko with an address in Station Hall Court, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 today appeared before a Dublin District Court charged with the murder of Anna Butautiene (52) at the same address.
The accused was remanded in custody to appear again on December 31st.
The results of the postmortem on the body of Ms Butautiene, a Lithuanian national, are due later today.
Gardaí were called to the ground-floor apartment at Station Court Hall at about 9.20pm on Christmas Day. They found the seriously injured woman and immediately called a doctor but she died at the scene.
The dead woman’s body remained at the scene until the arrival of the State pathologist yesterday morning. Officers from the Garda’s crime scene investigation unit carried out technical examinations and interviewed local residents during the day. The body was removed from the apartment at about 12.30pm.
Neighbours were mostly unaware of what happened on Christmas night until yesterday, when the area remained cordoned off to everyone except local residents. The apartment in which the woman died is on the ground floor of a three-storey row of townhouses located between the Clonsilla Road and the local train station.
The blind on the front window was pulled down but the front door was ajar as gardaí continued their work yesterday.
The apartment complex in which the woman died is located in a quiet residential area and local residents said nothing like this had happened there before. A number of neighbours said they didn’t know who was living in the apartment and that generally they did not know their neighbours. The area is populated by a mix of Irish people and immigrants from a variety of different countries.