Vicious murder

Detectives probing the murder of a Swiss teenage girl in Galway city earlier this week are working off a 'blank sheet’ in what seems to have been a completely random attack.This morning it has emerged that the parents of Manuela Riedo (17) — an only child from the Berne area of Switzerland — are too traumatised and distressed to travel to Ireland at present. A decision on, 'if and when’ the couple will travel to Galway, is now likely to be made over the weekend following medical consultation.Manuela Riedo died after being strangled in the Lough Atalia area of Galway city sometime between 7.30 pm on Monday evening and 9 am on the following Tuesday morning. Gardai are combing through CCTV footage taken from a number of cameras in the city area on Monday evening and have conducted a painstaking search of the murder site area in search of clues.However as…..