Gardaí question teenager over Poles' murder
A teenager is tonight being quizzed by gardaí investigating the double murder of two young Polish workers in Dublin.
The 16-year-old youth can be held for 24 hours by officers probing the killings of Pawel Kalite and Marius Szwajkos in Drimnagh last month.
The men were stabbed in the head and throat with a screwdriver after apparently refusing to buy alcohol for a gang of under-age youths.
They died within days of the attack, near their rented home at Benbulbin Road in Drimnagh on February 23.
A garda spokesman said officers investigating the murder of the two men arrested a 16-year-old male youth this afternoon as part of their on-going investigation.
“He is detained at Sundrive Road Garda station under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984,” he added.
Mr Szwajkos, 27, from Szczucin in southern Poland, died on February 25 after falling into a coma. His friend Mr Kalite, 26, who moved to Ireland from Poland last year to look for work as a builder, died on February 28.
A number of teenagers, including a 14-year-old girl, were previously arrested in relation to the killings and released without charge.
