Three people who were arrested in connection with an arson attack that resulted in the deaths of four people in Waterford city last week, have been released without charge.<\/p>\n
A man in his 50s and two women in their 30s were arrested by garda\u00ed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The three people, who are understood to have been arrested in the Waterford area, were detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, anti-gang legislation.<\/p>\n
In a statement, garda\u00ed said that the three people have been released without charge.<\/p>\n
They said that a file will now be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
A fourth person, a man in his 20s who was arrested on Thursday, remains in custody.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have said that their investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
Kim and Philip English, and their two sons, 12-year-old Callum and nine-year-old Jayden, died following an arson attack on their home in the Birchwood estate on 13 October.<\/p>\n
Two more children were critically injured in the attack.<\/p>\n
A total of six people have been arrested to date as part of the investigation into the arson attack.<\/p>\n
The two other people, Jessica Dalton, aged 31, with an address in Waterford city, and 21-year-old Cian Stacey, and of no fixed abode, appeared before Waterford District Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
They were further remanded in custody and will be back before the same court again on 17 November via video-link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people who were arrested in connection with an arson attack that resulted in the deaths of four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-664025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664025","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=664025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}