Gardaí are trying to establish whether Dubliner Mark Hennessy spent last Saturday night drinking and taking drugs after he strangled Jastine Valdez. The postmortem examination on the remains of Ms Valdez, a 24-year-old accountancy student from the Philippines, showed she had been manually strangled. At least one witness also said Ms Valdez had tried to fight off Hennessy as he bundled her into his car. Gardaí believe Hennessy killed Ms Valdez in his car soon after the abduction to stop her from drawing any other witnesses’ attention. He then drove to Puck’s Castle Lane, Rathmichael, south Co Dublin, and threw her body into thick gorse.

Source: The Irish Times May 23, 2018 00:22 UTC