Gardaí treat Finglas father-daughter deaths as murder-suicide

Gardaí are treating the deaths of a father and his five year old daughter found at a home in Heathfield Terrace, Cappoge, near Finglas in north Dublin on Saturday evening as a suspected murder-suicide. The bodies were discovered by the child's mother when she returned to the house at about 8pm, emergency services said, and forensic teams have preserved the scene while postmortem examinations are arranged.

Officers said the man, reported by neighbours to be in his 30s and to have worked as a bus driver, was found by the stairs and the child was located in a bedroom. A Garda spokesperson said, "Gardaí are investigating all the circumstances surrounding the discovery of two bodies at a domestic residence in Finglas, Dublin, on Saturday, 27 September 2025." The Coroner and the Office of the State Pathologist have been notified and the scene is being examined by the Garda Technical Bureau.

Local residents identified the pair as Krzysztof Daczkowski and his daughter Julia Daczkowska. Neighbours described the family as quiet and said the child was often seen playing in the small playground opposite the house. "She came out to a horrible scream. It was the mother," a neighbour said,...