Add The New York Post on Google The suspect in the murder of New York mom Jamey Karney able to flee Ireland after authorities returned his passport while he sought asylum — as investigators worry they will not be able to use DNA evidence to charge him.
Ahmad Alsaqer, 28, is believed to have already been in the air bound for Turkey with his own passport when his girlfriend’s battered body was found underneath a duvet by her 13-year-old daughter at their rented home in Killarney on Tuesday, according to Extra.ie.
Alsaqer, like all applicants who apply for international protection in Ireland, had surrendered his passport to the country’s International Protection Office while he applied for asylum.
Jamey Carney’s suspected killer, Ahmad Alsaqer was able to flee Ireland after authorities returned his passport while he sought asylum there. However his passport was returned because he had been granted subsidiary protection — a status for asylum seekers who do not meet the legal definition of a refugee, but could still face harm if deported to their native country, according to Extra.ie.
Carney, 43, who had moved with her daughter from Westchester County, N.Y., to Ireland in 2021, suffered multiple severe wounds to her head and was believed to have died from the brutal attack from her new boyfriend — but officials later confirmed she died from suffocation.
Investigators may have a hard time charging Alsaqer with Carney’s murder because he used to stay over at her home regularly, leaving his DNA all over the place before he allegedly killed her, sources told the Irish Times.
“It would be different if he was an intruder or had never been there before – he might be struggling to explain his DNA in that scenario,” the source told the paper.
