File goes to DPP over hit-and-run in Cork

Gardai in Cork have confirmed that a file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions concerning a man involved in a hit-and-run incident in Cork city last Sunday morning in which a woman was killed.

Mrs June Atkins, a mother of three children, was returning with her husband, John, to her home in Ballyphehane and was crossing the road when struck by a stolen car travelling at speed.

A man was arrested at the scene, a second gave himself up to gardai, and a third arrested at his home last Thursday was questioned. He was later later released without charge.

It is understood the file for the DPP concerns the third man.

The funeral of Mrs Atkins took place on Wednesday in Cork.