A young man has been charged with the murder of his three siblings at their family home.
24-year-old Andy Cash from Dublin, Ireland, refused to comment as he appeared in the Criminal Courts of Justice to answer for the killings of his 18-year-old sister, Lisa Cash, and their 8-year-old twin siblings Christy and Chelsea Cawley.
According to the prosecution, raging Cash stabbed his sister at their Rossfield Avenue while she was trying to protect her younger siblings.
After wounding her, the 24-year-old fatally injured his 8-year-old siblings.
In the massacre, the siblings’ 14-year-old brother managed to escape the home through a window and call the police. The boy reportedly suffered severe injuries but is expected to survive.
The police also revealed that the children’s mother was injured in the bloodshed but has since already been released from the hospital.
“What we’re all reading in the newspapers and hearing on television and on radio programs is just beyond a horrifically tragic and devastating scenario,” Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris as mourners gathered outside the family’s home to pay a tribute to the three angels who were killed overnight.
“Three young beautiful lives to be extinguished overnight… We think particularly of that community, but I think it’s something that has shocked the entire country.”
While the slain kids’ teachers are finding ways to explain to their friends and classmates what had happened, Harris added:
“Our hearts and thoughts and our prayers go to the family, to their poor mum and the 14-year-old boy, to all their neighbors, all their friends, to the schoolchildren going back to school today, where there’ll be two empty desks where beautiful twins only returned to school in recent days.
“I think the whole nation holds all of them in our thoughts.”
Meanwhile, a neighbor branded the victims as “lovely” people while insisting they were a “beautiful family.”
“None of us slept that night. People will not get over this. The community is rocked badly, mentally and physically. The guards did really well that night,” the anonymous neighbor said.
“They should be given medals. And the paramedics fought and fought so hard to save them. Lisa was a beautiful young girl and she tried her best to save those kids.”
Our thoughts are with the children’s family and friends during this tragic time.
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