Breaking: Man (30s) arrested over Sliabh Liag death

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in the water off Sliabh Liag last week.

The man, who is aged in his 30s, was arrested on Thursday morning in Letterkenny.

Gardai are questioning the man at Ballyshannon Garda Station, where he is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

The man is one of the two people previously arrested and released without charge in relation to the alleged incident.

 The body of a man was found on July 3 following an extensive week-long operation in south-west Donegal.

Investigating officers have been carefully building a case with an incident room set up at Ballyshannon Garda Station.

Detectives arrested the man, a chief suspect in the matter, at an address in Letterkenny on Thursday.

Gardai have remained tight lipped on the probe since the outset. The Sliabh Liag cliffs were closed to the public for five days as officers combed the area after a person was reported to be missing in the area having been allegedly assaulted.

Officially, Gardai have described the incident as an ‘alleged assault’.

The body, believed to be that of Robert Wilkin, a native of County Tyrone, was released from the Letterkenny University Hospital morgue on Wednesday afternoon.

A post-mortem examination was conducted by Dr Linda Mulligan, the State Pathologist, eight days previously.

Mr Wilkin, who was staying in south-west Donegal recently, was due to go before Folkestone Magistrates Court in England later this year for smuggling over €6.6 million worth of drugs in August, 2021.

He was found with a huge cache of heroin and cocaine hidden in a shipment of Belgian chocolates when his Polish-registered lorry was stopped at the Coquelles Channel Tunnel terminal.