Limerick murder-suicide investigation after Brazilian woman killed

Gardaí are investigating the death of a Brazilian woman in Limerick as a murder, treating the subsequent death of the chief suspect in Co Cork as a related suicide. The victim, 33-year-old Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa, was found deceased in an apartment on Lower Cecil Street in Limerick City on the morning of Friday, August 21, 2026. Her body was discovered by Gardaí after friends waiting to meet her for work raised the alarm when she did not appear.

Ms. Pereira Rosa, a law graduate from Sorocaba in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, had been living and working in Limerick. A postmortem examination confirmed she died violently from stab wounds. Evidence of a violent struggle was found at the scene, prompting the immediate launch of a murder investigation. Gardaí stated they were following a definite line of enquiry.

Approximately 12 hours after Ms. Pereira Rosa's body was found, at around 7:00 p.m. on Friday, the body of a man was recovered from rocks near Blackrock Castle in Co. Cork. The man, named locally as Judismar Weslei Batista, also from Brazil, was identified as the chief suspect and a person of interest in Ms. Pereira Rosa's murder. He was understood to have been her...