CLASSMATES OF MURDER VICTIM LEAVE GALWAY

Date Published: 12-Oct-2007

The classmates of murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo have left Galway.Plans are also being put in place to repatriate the victim's remains to Switzerland this weekend.The head of a local language school has confirmed the 43 foreign language students and two teachers left Galway for Dublin this morning to return home to Switzerland, cutting short their English language courses by over a week.They'd been moved from their host families and put up at a hotel in Galway city since the discovery of Manuela's body on Tuesday.The 17-year-old was strangled to death on Monday night while taking a shortcut through wastelands along Lough Atalia into Eyre Square. Last evening friends of the teenager attended a private service at the Augustinia in her memory.Plans are at an advanced stage to repatriate her remains to Switzerland this weekend. Meanwhile, Gardai are remaining tight-lipped as to progress in the hunt to catch her killer who still remains at large.Speaking to Galway Bay FM news within the past few minutes, Superintendent Tom Curley denied anyone had been brought in for questioning.