Black African immigrant murders the Polish mother of his child in Ireland before committing suicide

A deportation order for a west-African national was signed on the day he jumped from a cliff into the sea. Stephen Godsun Ukiwo (33) took his own life at Ballybunion, Co Kerry, after the body of his Polish partner Katarzyna Bartowiak (25) had been found at the rented home they shared in Deerpark Estate, Tralee, Co Kerry. It is thought that Bartowiak, who was known as Kasia, had been strangled. The couple's two-year-old son Sean was in the house at the time. Ukiwo, who was nicknamed 'Snoop', had come to Ireland from Benin in 2006 to seek asylum. His application had been denied but sources confirmed the order for his deportation was only signed on the day he died. Ukiwo, who married a west-African woman shortly after arriving in Ireland, is also survived by a daughter, Anna-Nina. Ukiwo's widow, Christina, who now lives in Cork, was said by friends to be "devastated" over his death.