GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the deaths of two men in a stabbing incident at a house in Bray, Co Wicklow, early yesterday have said two other people who survived are “very lucky” to be alive.
A source described the sustained knife attack as “frenzied”.
One of the survivors, Dylan Crean, and in whose family home the incident occurred, was stabbed eight times and suffered a punctured lung.
The other survivor was 22-year-old Jennifer Hennigan from Bray, who managed to crawl to a nearby house to raise the alarm despite being stabbed in the back.
When Ms Hennigan was admitted to hospital, staff realised the blade of the knife she had been stabbed with had broken from the handle and was embedded in her back.
The two men who died were both aged 22 years. The Irish Timesunderstands they were both students at Trinity College Dublin.
One of the dead men, Sebastian Crean (22), lived at the house in Cuala Grove, Bray, where the incident took place and is a brother of injured man Dylan Crean.
The other dead man is a 22-year-old with an address in Dalkey, south Dublin.
Senior Garda sources said they were satisfied the Dalkey man had stabbed the three victims, killing Sebastian Crean and injuring his brother Dylan and Ms Hennigan.
The Dalkey man was later found dead in the back garden of the Cuala Grove house.
A knife was found with the body. Gardaí are not looking for anybody else in relation to his death.
Sebastian Crean and the man from Dalkey were out socialising with a group of friends late on Saturday night into yesterday morning.
They were then driven to the Crean family home in the middle-class area of Bray. The men were later joined at the house by Ms Hennigan.
At some point just after 4.30am, the man from Dalkey fatally attacked Sebastian Crean with a knife. He then attacked Ms Hennigan, stabbing her in the back.
Dylan Crean was in bed at the time and ran downstairs when he heard the fatal attack on his brother.
He too was stabbed, eight times, by the 22-year-old Dalkey man.
The man from Dalkey then ran out of the house into the back garden. His body was found during a Garda search yesterday morning.
Ms Hennigan managed to crawl over a wall into a neighbour’s house and raised the alarm just before 5am.
She and Dylan Crean were rushed by ambulance to St Vincent’s Hospital. They underwent surgery yesterday and are expected to survive.
Gardaí found the remains of Sebastian Crean at the Cuala Grove property, his family home.
The Creans’s parents were away on holiday and returned to Ireland yesterday.
They were met off their British flight by a team of gardaí.
The remains of both the deceased men were taken from the scene yesterday for postmortems.
A second woman who was upstairs in the house when the stabbings took place was uninjured.
