BREAKING: man questioned over murder of Ashling Murphy released without charge and is eliminated from inquiries.

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  3. His name has been all over the place including here and now he’s no longer a suspect

    Mad

    Clearly why they started focusing on the bike earlier today – really hope they didn’t have complete tunnel vision and lost 24hrs

  9. Jesus Christ.

    I was hoping the bike thing was just tying up a loose end.

    I guess this shows the multiple eyewitness rumour yesterday was bullshit.

    Fuck. Really hope they get the right suspect soon

  13. This is how an entire day of racist remarks about Romanians ends.

    I hope to god the gardaí find the perpetrator soon.

  15. The person responsible could be sleeping in his warm bed, next to his loving wife with his kids sound asleep in their beds right now.

    That’s the scary part. Someone out there tonight is possibly unaware of who the person next to them really is.

    Her poor family will never be the same again.

  17. Innocent until proven guilty. Case in point. Hope they catch the bastard responsible for this. But people need to put their pitchforks away until then

  18. This is horrendous. I can’t even begin to imagine how scared young women locally will be tomorrow morning waking up to that news, and god only knows where the murdering scumbag is by now.

  20. Wow, r/Ireland went through about half its yearly supply of xenophobic invective on this and the chap didn’t even do it. Gonna have to refresh those supplies with a fresh batch of alt accounts you gun-jumping trogs.

  22. This explains the huge task force. I was wondering why 50 gardai were working on it if they already had the perpetrator.

    Absolutely terrifying. Hopefully someone knows something and the real murderer will be found soon.

  23. This is mental for two possible reasons

    1 – There’s still an killer on the loose in Tullamore?

    2 – The suspect was “outed” on Twitter and elsewhere earlier (including here for a few seconds) with death threats aplenty on his Facebook

    Some looper in Tullamore might attack the man who was released without charge

    **Edit**

    I used to roll my eyes a bit when Irish websites said that suspects in ongoing investigations aren’t allowed to be named.

    I thought it was a bit much because, the vast majority of the time, they’re guilty in matters like this

    But not this time in this case and I very much see the reasoning behind it now

  25. Edit: since it’s apparently not obvious, my point below is that the two major national newspapers published completely contradictory information about this man.

    Irish Times:
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/man-arrested-over-tullamore-murder-on-bail-for-several-alleged-assaults-1.4775976
    >The man being questioned on Thursday night is a 40-year-old who has lived and worked in Tullamore for many years. He is currently charged with the alleged assault causing harm of a woman almost exactly 12 months ago.
    Separately, he is also charged with assault and assault causing harm, allegedly against men, as well as one count of criminal damage and another of threatening and abusive behaviour, all on the same date last summer.

    Indo:
    >It is understood the suspect has an alcohol problem and has been living in the area for 20 years.
    He is known to gardaí for alcohol-related criminal offences and has convictions relating to shoplifting. However, he never came to garda attention before for involvement in violence.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/gardai-seek-information-on-mountain-bike-linked-to-chief-suspect-in-tullamore-murder-of-ashling-murphy-23-41234834.html

    Good job everyone.

  26. So it may not even have been a random attack for all we know. All details to date seemed to be based on the assumption this was the guy. Hopefully they can catch him.

    I wonder if the witnesses didn’t get a proper look at him or were too traumatised to remember details. Is it possible they even spotted him near the scene and just assumed it was him when it was just wrong place, wrong time? All just hypotheses obviously.

  27. This is worrying on a few levels. The killer has a head-start of at least 30 hours now. Could be absolutely anywhere in Europe now being realistic

  28. Does anyone know if they’re still looking for that mountain bike? Would be interested to know if that was identified as linked to the actual culprit or just belonged to the guy they arrested.

  30. I wonder if this guy will even be able to live in the town now, absolutely vilified on social media in the past 24 hours. Shameful.

  31. Eliminated from enquiries is a major development. Fucking hell they didn’t have the right guy

  32. Loads of people on Facebook are pissed off that he’s been released. Saying that it had to have been him “sure there were witnesses that saw him” and “something’s not right here”.

  33. Of course I feel for the woman who passed, her family, as well as women over there in general, but I also feel for the man who has had his name slapped all over the place, especially since he is innocent at the end of the day. Obviously whoever is guilty should get exposed for what he did but not until we have more certainty that it is him.

    He will probably have to move to another part of the country, or a new one entirely because of this, it isn’t safe for him now since people will do to him what that vile criminal did.

  35. I did think sealing off the scene and putting 50 gardai on the case seemed odd if everyone was saying they had the guy and he was a known weirdo junkie.

    Turns out people were talking absolute bollox

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