{"id":157494,"date":"2025-11-24T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157494\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:03:06","slug":"woman-seriously-injured-after-assault-by-ex-partner-who-set-fire-to-her-leixlip-home-before-taking-his-own-life-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157494\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman seriously injured after assault by ex-partner who set fire to her Leixlip home before taking his own life \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man attacked his ex-partner before setting her house on fire and taking his own life in Co Kildare<\/a> this morning, garda\u00ed<\/a> believe.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to the series of events which occurred early on Monday morning but say they are not searching for any other suspects. The woman remains in hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The man, who is aged in his 50s, had previously been in a relationship with the woman, who was also aged in her 50s.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed believe he travelled to her home Oaklawn West, Leixlip on Monday morning and that she was the victim of a serious assault. The woman managed to escape the house with significant injuries.<\/p>\n

The man remained at the scene and is believed to have set the property on fire.<\/p>\n

He subsequently left the home and his body was recovered from the nearby Leixlip Reservoir by the Garda Water Unit. Garda\u00ed do not suspect foul play in relation to the man\u2019s death and believe he took his own life.<\/p>\n

Emergency services attended the house and extinguished the blaze. The woman was taken to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin for treatment of what garda\u00ed described as \u201cserious injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n

The scene of the fire and suspected assault has been preserved for a technical examination.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed either incident to contact them,\u201d the Garda said in a statement<\/p>\n

In particular, they are seeking anyone who was in the areas of Oaklawn West, the Leixlip Reservoir and the N4 road between 5.30am and 8am.<\/p>\n

Anyone with footage, including dashcam footage, is asked to make it available to investigators. \u201cAnyone with any information is asked to contact Leixlip Garda station on (01) 666 7800, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources said the investigation is likely to focus on the preparation of a file for the coroner for Co Kildare, rather than a criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man attacked his ex-partner before setting her house on fire and taking his own life in Co…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-157494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}