Tragic Jastine flown home
TRAGIC student Jastine Valdez made her final journey in Ireland yesterday as she was taken to the airport to be flown back to the Philippines.
The 24-year-old student was brutally murdered by psycho Mark Hennessy earlier this month.
Her remains are being brought back to her home town of Aritao by her mum Teresita and dad Danilo ahead of her funeral.
Yesterday her coffin left Thomas Murphy & Sons funeral directors in Bray, Co Wicklow, on its way to Dublin Airport.
Her heartbroken family made the journey accompanied by Mark Christopher Congdon, Honorary Consul for the Philippines in Ireland. At the last official memorial service for Jastine at Murphy’s Funeral Home, Mr Congdon said: “The Philippine spirit of Bayanihan has been truly prevalent, both here in Wicklow and across Ireland.
“Filipino and Irish, hand-in-hand, in solidarity, compassion and grief.
“That spirit has been expressed in words of deep regret, in silent tears, in families coming together in a single home to pray for Jastine, Tess and Dani, in attending prayer vigils across communities scattered throughout Ireland, in the 4,458 kind people who have made silent donation to the Jastine Valdez Memorial Fund, in the many friends who supported Terresita and Danilo in the last few horrendous days.”