Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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 IRISH schoolboy Cameron Reilly wasmurdered after a petty verbal spat between two groups of teenagers, it emerged last night.
The Daily Mirror has learned trouble flared outside a chip shop, that may have led to his brutal and gruesome death several hours later.
The body of the 18 year-old hospitality studies student, who was strangled and beaten, was discovered in a field in Shamrock Hill, Dunleer, Co Louth at 8am on Saturday.
It has now emerged three groups of young people were regularly in that area at night.
They included 15 to 17-year-olds who would smoke cigarettes, a second group, some of whom were drinking and a third group who used “all types of drugs”.
A source said: “The third group would probably be aged 17 to 25.
“Group A came into contact with group C. Group B [the drinkers] wouldn’t do any harm to anyone.
“Part of group C would be a hardcore element that might fancy themselves as being republicans.
“They’d be hardcore b ****** s. They’re not going to be broken easily if one of those did that to him.“W h o else did it when it happened in the field where they all hang around?”
Speaking about the 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.”