A €10,000 reward is being offered by Crimestoppers for information which can identify a murdered woman whose body was found in the Phoenix Park last week.
Despite an extensive public appeal both in Ireland and internationally through Interpol, the woman’s body has not been identified a week after it was discovered in the Military Road area of the park.
Gardaí yesterday issued 20 new photographs of the woman and the clothes she was wearing at the time in an attempt to jog the memories of anybody who might have known her.
She was 4ft 10in, of medium build, with brown shoulder-length hair and aged in her 40s. She had a number of distinctive moles on her face including one on her left temple, one under her right eye and another under her lips.
She was wearing a green or grey zip-up fleece, a striped red and blue top, three-quarter length pink leggings and pink fleece socks. She had gold nail varnish on her toes.
The woman was wearing a gold religious medal, a gold Celtic cross necklace, Creole-type hooped-earrings and a plain silver-coloured hairclip. She also wore a pair of size 5 Karrimor trainers.
The woman had good quality dental work done which would have required “some money”, Garda spokesman Supt John Gilligan said yesterday.
A black Raleigh woman’s bicycle with a back carrier was found near the scene, but gardaí are unsure if it belonged to the victim.
The woman’s body was discovered on Wednesday, August 5th, by two passersby. Investigators believe that she had been killed a short time prior to the discovery of her body and the murder had taken place in the same area.
A postmortem revealed that the woman died as a result of internal trauma caused by multiple stab wounds to her upper body.
Supt Gilligan said they had looked at options where she might be from, but had not come to any conclusions. The incident room had received about 200 calls, he said, but some positive sightings appeared to contradict each other.
He said that the distinctive Irish jewellery she had worn might suggest she was Irish, but it was “unusual” that nobody would have come forward and identified her had she been born and reared in Ireland.
