GARDAÍ RELEASE DESCRIPTION OF CITY MURDER VICTIM

Date Published: 10-Oct-2007

The Garda team leading the investigation into the brutal killing of the Swiss teenager whose body was found near Lough Atalia in Renmore yesterday are appealing for help from the publicThe 17 year old student was strangled, and her partially clothed body was found at 9.30am yesterday on the Military Path between Lakeshore Drive and Ceannt station A massive Garda hunt, involving a team of over 50 Gardaí, is underway to try and catch Manuela's killerThey've enlisted the help of officers from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Dublin and the Garda Immigration Bureau.Maunela Reido was 5'4" in height with brown shoulder length brown hair. When last seen she was wearing black suede boots, a grey sleeved top with narrow stripes and a red and black cardigan which had two black sleeves and a diamond shape on the back.She was also wearing a waist length black herringbone coast, and grey jeans. She was carrying a distinctive large black handbag with a cherry pattern on eth front.She had a small diamond stud in the left side of her nose and wore a silver ring on her middle finger