Garda\u00ed believe the main suspect in the murder in Co Kerry of Jamey Carney (43) has fled the country and have begun inquiries internationally to try to find him.<\/p>\n
The American citizen, who had a 13-year-old daughter, suffered fatal head injuries in the attack that occurred on Monday night or in the early hours of Tuesday morning at her home in the Muckross Road area of Killarney.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed believe the man they are looking for, who is from the Middle East, had befriended the mother of one and has information to share on how she died. <\/p>\n
In the hours after the discovery of Jamey Carney\u2019s body on Tuesday afternoon, officers carried out checks at Kerry, Cork and Dublin airports. Garda\u00ed also asked the PSNI to monitor Belfast airports.<\/p>\n
Detectives now believe the man caught an early morning bus from Killarney to Dublin and made his way to Dublin Airport where he boarded a flight. The man\u2019s social media accounts had also been locked on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Garda sources said officers are liaising with Interpol to try to trace the man\u2019s movements once he landed. <\/p>\n
If the suspect is located, garda\u00ed could face a significant challenge in seeking to have him extradited as under Irish law, extradition to Ireland is only permitted when a person is to either serve a sentence or to be charged with an offence. <\/p>\n
Irish law does not permitted extradition for the purpose of investigation or questioning. If garda\u00ed are to seek the extradition of a suspect, they can only do so if they have received a direction from the DPP to charge them with an offence.<\/p>\n
Because Jamey Carney was a US citizen, and the man being sought is from the Middle East and does have has permission to remain permanently in Ireland, garda\u00ed are concerned the killing may be taken up by the US far right and political figures intent on stirring racial tensions in the Republic.<\/p>\n
The alarm was raised at lunchtime on Tuesday, when a concerned relative of the victim called to her rented house at the Homeland estate and found her remains.<\/p>\n
The entrance to the estate of eight houses remained sealed off by garda\u00ed on Wednesday morning, with the victim\u2019s remains removed via hearse at 11.15am to University Hospital Kerry for a postmortem examination.<\/p>\n
The dead woman was originally from Westchester County, north of New York City, and moved to Killarney in 2021. It is believed that two of her grandparents were from Co Kerry.<\/p>\n
Her father died 11 months ago. Her mother and sister still live in the United States. She had worked in Tralee for RelateCare for the last 4\u00bd years. A family liaison officer has been appointed to assist the family.<\/p>\n
Last night, garda\u00ed said a postmortem examination had been completed by State Pathologist Dr Linda Mulligan, and the inquiry had \u201cnow been upgraded to a murder investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n
A senior officer has been appointed to lead the investigation. An incident room has been established at Killarney Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed believe the main suspect in the murder in Co Kerry of Jamey Carney (43) has fled the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,7727,41961,4320,43],"class_list":["post-540575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry","tag-killarney","tag-new-york","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540575","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=540575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}