Gardaí are to prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions after last night releasing without charge a man arrested for questioning over a suspected assault on a 53-year-old man whose body was found in Bantry in west Cork on Friday evening.
Gardaí had arrested the 68-year-old man at about 6pm on Friday near where the body of Mark Corbett, a father of two, had been found with head injuries in Seskin, a townland about a mile from the centre of Bantry town.
Mr Corbett – an Englishman who was living at Old Barrack Road with his partner and two children – was pronounced dead at the scene. Gardaí are treating his death as suspicious and have declined to release postmortem findings for operational reasons. The Irish Times understands the findings were complex and gardaí are looking at factors that may have played a part in Mr Corbett’s death, including underlying health issues. They are considering the fact he was found at the bottom of a 4.5m embankment and whether he may have suffered injuries in a fall, as well as whether he may have been assaulted.
