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The house on Bachelor's Walk in Tullamore, Co Offaly, where the body of an 11-year-old girl was discovered in 2012. Julien Behal/PA
Tullamore
Woman arrested over murder of 11-year-old Emily Barut
The girl, who was a wheelchair user and had both mental and physical disabilities, was found dead at her home in Tullamore in 2012.
A WOMAN HAS been arrested in Tullamore today as part of the investigation into the murder of an 11-year-old girl in 2012.
Emily Barut’s body was found at her home at Bachelor’s Walk in September 2012. The young girl was a wheelchair user and had both mental and physical disabilities.
Her mother, a local GP, was also found unconscious in the house.
Post-mortem results at the time were inconclusive and gardaí said they would be using toxicology results to try to determine how the girl died. Today they confirmed that a woman in her 50s has been arrested in connection with the murder.
She is currently being detained at Tullamore garda station.
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