Dublin school stabbing suspect to be quizzed by gardai as he wakes from coma

The suspect has now been moved out of the intensive care unit – almost two weeks after the attack that shocked the nation.

Gardai are set to quiz the chief suspect for the Dublin crèche knife attack – after he woke from a coma, it has emerged.

The Mirror has confirmed that the suspect has now been moved out of the intensive care unit of Dublin’s Mater Hospital – almost two weeks after the attack that shocked the nation. We have established that the 49-year-old Algerian-born Irish citizen is now the hospital’s high dependency unit – one level down in severity from ICU.

Sources have told us that the suspect is awake and breathing by himself – but is not yet medically fit to be questioned by detectives from Mountjoy Garda Station probing the horror knife attack on the crèche at Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Dublin’s Parnell Square East on November 23.But they indicated that gardaí hoped to be able to arrest and question the suspect by as early as the end of this week. It is a major boost for the investigation as there had been fears that the suspect’s injuries – allegedly sustained after a knifeman attacked three kids and worker Leanne Flynn Keogh in the shocking attack – were so serious that he might never be fit to be questioned.