A teenager arrested in connection with the investigation into the killing of Qayyum Balogun was released without charge on Friday, the latest step in a case that remains active in Dublin. The juvenile male, who was in his mid-teens, had been detained at a Garda station in the Dublin area under section four of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
He was the third person arrested in the probe into Balogun’s death. A woman arrested earlier in the week was released without charge on Wednesday, while Joshua Brodericks appeared in court on Friday facing four charges, including assault causing harm and violent disorder.
Balogun, 21, was attacked after attending a gig in Bewley’s Café on Grafton Street in the early hours of Monday. He was from a Nigerian family based in Dundalk.
The investigation has now reached a point where a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions, but the legal picture remains incomplete. Brodericks, 25, with an address at Gleann Dara in Rahoon, Co Galway, is not being charged with any offences specifically against Balogun, leaving the central allegation around the fatal assault still to be tested in the next phase of the case.
A Garda statement on Friday evening said investigations are ongoing.
