Police hunt double murderer who slit eight-year-old girl's throat before stabbing her mother 20 times

Irish police are investigating a double murder after a mother and daughter were brutally killed in their County Kerry home. 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old child Enrika, which were discovered on Sunday, confirmed the pair died in violent circumstances. It has emerged that eight-year-old Enrika Lubiene had her throat slit, and was killed alongside her mother, 27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene. Jolanta was stabbed more than 20 times in her torso as well as receiving a fatal knife wound to the neck She was stabbed in the kitchen after putting away the shopping and her dinner in the oven.

Their bodies lay dead in their home for 48 hours before being found by a friend. Ms Lubiene, originally from Lithuania, was found in a room downstairs and the child in an upstairs bedroom. According to sources, the extensive nature of the stab wounds suffered by Ms Lubiene suggest she was the intended victim of the attack. Police are investigating whether Enrika was then killed because she witnessed the attack on her mother and may have known the killer. A source said: ‘The scene was awful, because there was so much blood. It was like an abattoir.’

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