Woman found dead near Lakeshore Drive

Morbid.Angel

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forbairt

can't really add anything to it ...

from breakingnews.ie

Gardaí in Galway are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found on waste ground in the city this morning.

The discovery was made between Lakeshore Drive and Ceannt Railway Station at around 9.30am.

The scene has been sealed off for forensic examination and the State Pathologist has been called to examine the body.

A post mortem will be carried out to determine the exact cause of death.

Mr Magnolia

Morbid.Angel wrote:

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Do you live near the scene Morbid?

snubbleste

Ironic name OP!

Nothing on Galwaynews.ie about it yet
That's a big open area isn't it, or was it in the fields under the railway line?

Does this have any connection with the sexual assaults I wonder?

po0k

Thread re-opened.

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galvianlord

i just think it's all very sad, she only arrived in Galway and look what happens. RIP

Fanny Cradock

I believe she was 17, over here studying English or some such and had arrived just a week ago. I really hope they catch the guy.

thedesigntribe

Morbid.Angel wrote:

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Hello,

Please let us know that you reported this to the Garda.

big b

Fanny Cradock wrote:

I believe she was 17, over here studying English or some such and had arrived just a week ago. I really hope they catch the guy.

+1.

A desperately sad story.

m83

This is just so so sad, the poor girl I really hope they find the bastard who did this.

Morbid.Angel

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po0k

Perhaps the council may consider putting lights or even cameras along that walkway.
It will be used by pedestrians because it cuts quite a bit off the journey from eyre square to renmore, and things like this are going to keep happening.

Morbid.Angel

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biko

Terrible, imagine being the family back in Switzerland and getting a phone call from the Gardai.

PixelTrawler

Shocked to hear this. Just shocked.

What an awful way to go. Must be awful for the family on the way over from Switzerland now.

I wonder is there any connections with whats going on in Athlone. Down there they had to close a road recently due to the number of assaults on young women.

I believe the Gardai were handing out warning flyers.

Maybe something similar should be done here before another tragedy occurs.

Krieg

I live on lakeshore drive, just down the road from the incident
I hope to christ they get the guy
Cops didnt call here yet, I imagine they will be around tomorow
I saw cops and forensics still there earlier

sgthighway

We were talking about it at work today. When was the last time there was a Murder Inquiry in Galway? There has been a good few ManSlaughters but I think the last Murder was the Female Taxi Driver. I have a good imagination but I can't even slightly imagine how that girls parents feel for their daughter to be gone so soon after leaving home. RIP.

Utopia Parkway

Tragic story. Only 17 ffs.

Wonder is this the same bastard responsible for all these sexual assaults? There have been quite a few of them in the area between town and Renmore/Mervue in recent years.

Hope whoever did it is caught and rots in hell for it.:mad:

Shinto

I wonder was the murderer Irish or non-Irish.

Maybe you're thinking what i'm thinking.

soundbyte

Thinks last murder inquriy was Nancy Nolan in Ballygar about 6/7 years ago. Not forgetting Jack Frost earlier this year.

I have a gut feeling they'll get this guy ... Christ imagine what the Swedes think of Galway today.

Bit like that fcuker that slashed the Aussie girl in town a few years back. At least she said she'd never hold anything against the city (IIRC).

The fcuker should be shot

PixelTrawler

Is the "Mister Freeze" case not a murder enquiry? I know he was murdered years ago and frozen but he was only discovered this year.

And that surely can't be manslaughter

Robbo

Shinto wrote:

I wonder was the murderer Irish or non-Irish.

Maybe you're thinking what i'm thinking.

The Black'n'Tans?

biko

The barracks are right there. Have soldiers patrolling these areas/bridge at night.
No rifles needed, just truncheons.

Maybe a few snipers with night vision goggles creeping around the bushes.

Sponge Bob

Shinto wrote:

I wonder was the murderer Irish or non-Irish.

That Railway Path to Renmore was very well populated by native scumbags for years, long before Ireland became a net importer of people.

I would look no further than the city limits.

padi89

soundbyte wrote:

Christ imagine what the Swedes think of Galway today.

I doubt they think any less of the place.......i think you mean Swiss.

Amazotheamazing

Wasn't there a medical student murdered by her boyfriend 2 summers ago, or what the verdict in that?

Very sad, and considering the number of rapes in that area over the years, probably very avoidable if the council had bothered with proper security.

Robbo

Amazotheamazing wrote:

Wasn't there a medical student murdered by her boyfriend 2 summers ago, or what the verdict in that?

That was last summer, it has yet to go to trial.

MargeS

Surely the host family/Language school could have advised her about the danger of the tracks. She was only 4 days in the country and knew about the short cut. I would have thought that no matter what country you are in, shortcuts are ususally off the beaten track and to be treated with caution.

Don't get me wrong here, the whole thing is tragic and I'm not finding blame with anyone, but surely shortcuts in a strange country when you're only 4 days here - she should have understood the risks.

biko

Switzerland is safe as houses. She has no reason to believe Ireland is anything but. Galway would also be the safest city in Ireland, size wise - not that she knew this. People use these dodgy walks thousands of times a year without hassle.

It could have been any young girl walking down that way when this killer decided to hurt someone.


You know, for once it'd be nice if a psycho killer decides to only choose big strong men as victims instead of young girls. Just once.

I was listening to the radio last night and they believed that she had ran on to the wasteground to escape from whoever was chasing her.

as of yet, there is no evidence to back this up, I don't think? so it's just hearsay for now I guess.

Galway murder linked to sex attacks

Gardaí are investigating whether the murder of a 17-year-old Swiss student in Galway may be linked to recent sexual assaults.

Detectives are investigating several cases of sexual assault in the Ceannt station and city centre area over the past three months.

One man had been arrested in relation to a reported assault in late September and was released. Files were being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Postmortem results showed that Manuela Riedo, a student from Berne who had only been in Galway for three days, died from asphyxiation.

Ms Riedo was one of a group of 43 students in final year in school near Berne, who had arrived in Dublin airport on Saturday night. The group then travelled to Galway for a two-week English language course.

Source: ireland.com

Amazotheamazing

biko wrote:

People use these dodgy walks thousands of times a year without hassle.

Are that not a number of rapes there every year?

kraggy

Amazotheamazing wrote:

Are that not a number of rapes there every year?

No there aren't.

The line is not as unsafe as people make it out to be. Yes, things have happened there in the past but let's not get carried away.

There are not a number of rapes on the line every year.

MargeS

biko wrote:

Switzerland is safe as houses. She has no reason to believe Ireland is anything but.

But can you really think this, in this day and age?

walt0r

Whoever the ****ing piece of **** bum who did this is needs to be buried alive

biko

MargeS wrote: »

But can you really think this, in this day and age?

I guess as a young female you always have to be wary but that has always been the case. Killers have attacked single females throughout the ages.
I've no stats but don't think attacks have risen drastically recently, again no stats.

Hopefully this crime will be solved quickly and something will be done about those risky areas. Cameras, street lights and arbitrary army/police foot patrols will scare these monsters away - but they will not go away completely.

finlma

Shinto wrote: »

I wonder was the murderer Irish or non-Irish.

Maybe you're thinking what i'm thinking.

The only thing I'm thinking is that you're a racist for making a comment like that.

Very sad story and bad news for the city. No need to go suspecting every foreign national in the city though.

Willymuncher

finlma wrote: »

The only thing I'm thinking is that you're a racist for making a comment like that.

Very sad story and bad news for the city. No need to go suspecting every foreign national in the city though.

It could very well be a foreign national, it does not make him a racist for wondering what the murderers nationality is, especially considering that there is a large number of immigrants in Ireland now.

I hate the fact that you can't say anything regarding a foreign national in Ireland right now without being labelled a racist. These guys coming into our country are people too, just like you or me, and among them there will be some criminals capable of committing an act such as this...its nothing new, just an unfortunate fact.

muppetkiller

biko wrote: »

Switzerland is safe as houses.[/I]

You obviously never lived in Switzerland...

It's a horrible case alright ..Let's hope they catch this monster soon.

Lockstep

finlma wrote: »

The only thing I'm thinking is that you're a racist for making a comment like that.

Since when has being non-Irish been a race?

pid()

This is awful, I really hope they catch who did it. I only moved to Galway recently and I hope this kind of crap doesn't happen anymore. The last thing we need is a series of murders. I hope the students walking home from GMIT and NUIG don't walk alone. I used to go to college in Tralee and a series of rapes happened down there; 5 people raped in one month - 3 of which were male. Warnings were issued around the college and meetings were held. I hope the same awareness is being raised at the colleges and schools in Galway. Tragic that such a young life is taken away so suddenly.

Toto Wolfcastle

pid() wrote: »

This is awful, I really hope they catch who did it. I only moved to Galway recently and I hope this kind of crap doesn't happen anymore. The last thing we need is a series of murders. I hope the students walking home from GMIT and NUIG don't walk alone. I used to go to college in Tralee and a series of rapes happened down there; 5 people raped in one month - 3 of which were male. Warnings were issued around the college and meetings were held. I hope the same awareness is being raised at the colleges and schools in Galway. Tragic that such a young life is taken away so suddenly.

Apparently they're giving out free personal alarms in NUIG and also information on safety/safe ways of getting home, but I haven't noticed any of this, it was my mother in Cork who asked if I'd gotten an alarm.

Where exactly is this walkway? Because I'm new to the area I don't recognise the placename.

Tragic story. Is it true that the parents are still in Switzerland because they are too distraught to travel?

finlma

Willymuncher wrote: »

It could very well be a foreign national, it does not make him a racist for wondering what the murderers nationality is, especially considering that there is a large number of immigrants in Ireland now.

Of course the murderer could be from anywhere. But the OP suggests that its more likely to be a non-Irish person than an Irish person without actually saying it. It's negative attitudes like that that perpetuate racism and ghettoism.

Either way it doesn't matter where a person is from - a murderer is a murderer no matter what.

Lockstep

finlma wrote: »

Of course the murderer could be from anywhere. But the OP suggests that its more likely to be a non-Irish person than an Irish person without actually saying it. It's negative attitudes like that that perpetuate racism and ghettoism.

Either way it doesn't matter where a person is from - a murderer is a murderer no matter what.

Prejudice based on nationality is not racism.



If you want to know the place to avoid then go to Galway Train station from Eyre Square. Head on past the main door and opposite the carpark is a pathway with yokes on it to prevent bikes. it leads from the station to the army barracks in Renmore.

I was on the pathway Monday evening, it did feel pretty dodgy wandering aroudn on my own there (I was applying to the army reserves)

Krieg

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I was on the pathway Monday evening, it did feel pretty dodgy wandering aroudn on my own there

If I were you id contact the Gardai and let them know you were walking the path that evening. Granted you didnt see anything, but when cops ask other people in the area about that evening (and they visited quite a few houses today), they might give your description and you might end up a possible suspect. Dont get me wrong, Im not making accusations But it could help Garda investigation in limiting the number of people seen walking that evening

Shinto

Finlma......how dare you!

Re-read my exact words. Re-read them again a second time. You have the audacity to accuse me of racism because YOU inferred that i suggested it was more likely that the murderer was a non-national.

Re-read my words for the 3rd time and tell me how you derived that inference.

You can't even mention immigration in this pathetic country without being accused of racism.

MattKid

I come from a small town but even so we always walked our female friends home, even if it happened to be in the opposite direction from our own homes. I hope guys in Galway make sure they do this.

The rape alarms are nothing new. They've been around since I was in 1st year (the 1st time around) in 2005. And they gave them out free to everyone in GMIT if they wanted one. Also, GMIT have a deal with Cara Cabs that if you don't have any money, they will take your student card and you can get it back from them when you drop the money in.

I'm unsure of if NUIG does this too.

I'm not doing this to advertise anything specifically, but just so people have the number for them, it's 091 56 39 39. I state again, it's not advertising them, it's to ensure people are aware of this

There's also a full list of cab numbers here

padi89

MattKid wrote: »

I come from a small town but even so we always walked our female friends home, even if it happened to be in the opposite direction from our own homes. I hope guys in Galway make sure they do this.

Yeah im sure most will walk a female friend home.Funny thing is you drive through Galway or any town for that matter after night club hours in the wee hours of the morning.Believe me its an eye opener to see the amount of dangerous situations people put themselves in, male or female.

Fey!

I sincerely hope that whoever is responsible for this heinous crime is caught. I, for one, would support whatever punishment is meted out to the lower lifeform who killed this child (and, despite what some may think, 17 is still childhood).

As for the number of murders locally, I think that the last was the Freezer Man. In the last number of years there was, Malcolm O'Shaughnessy stabbed by an American on Dominic Street; the medical student in an apartment off Fr Griffin Road; and Eileen O'Shaughnessy, a female taxi driver, around 10 years ago. Each murder had strong suspects, IIRC.

And sorry for this OT, but it has to be done.

Shinto wrote:

I wonder was the murderer Irish or non-Irish.

Maybe you're thinking what i'm thinking.

And what, pray tell, would you be thinking? Personally, I'm thinking something that would get me barred for personal attacks.

Shinto wrote:

Finlma......how dare you!

Re-read my exact words. Re-read them again a second time. You have the audacity to accuse me of racism because YOU inferred that i suggested it was more likely that the murderer was a non-national.

Re-read my words for the 3rd time and tell me how you derived that inference.

You can't even mention immigration in this pathetic country without being accused of racism.

I've re-read your original statement several times, as has my partner. I'm Galwegian, she's Polish. We both read it as you saying "it's a foreigner done it, start the lynchings". I reckon that Finmla has read it the same way.

We "derived that inference" by reading what looks like the post of yet another bigot.

And for someone who, according to your sig, has immigrated, perhaps, if you are innocent of bigotry, you should learn to phrase things better.

sgthighway

Fey! wrote: »

As for the number of murders locally, I think that the last was the Freezer Man. In the last number of years there was, Malcolm O'Shaughnessy stabbed by an American on Dominic Street; the medical student in an apartment off Fr Griffin Road; and Eileen O'Shaughnessy, a female taxi driver, around 10 years ago. Each murder had strong suspects, IIRC..

Freezer man was drug related. Wasn't the Malcom O'S one Manslughter? 2 lads from the US were caught and jumped bail?? The one in Fr. Griffin Rd was a boyfriend/girlfriend thing? I still have good faith that they will get the person who murdered Eileen. Its one of the Cold Cases been opened up by this new Task Force. Galway is probably one of the safest places to live.

CCTV is the only way to go to be a deterent to "baddies".
I think all Housing Estates should be fitted with CCTV just like Street Lighting. It should be part of the Planing Application. As for Costs; How much money would be saved on Gardai/Courts/Prisons if there was less crime. Wasn't there a thing in the news during the week; In the UK they reckon you are been watched all the time (not literly but more than any other country in the world).