Gardaí investigating the 1999 murder of Dublin teenager Raonaid Murray have made a fresh appeal for anyone with information to come forward.
The appeal comes a month before the fifth anniversary of the 17-year-old's death. The teenager was fatally stabbed in an attack near her home at Silchester Park, Glenageary, at about 12.10 a.m. on September 4th, 1999.
The officer in charge of the investigation, Insp Eamonn O'Reilly of Dún Laoghaire Garda station, said a new team is reviewing the case.
"This is a major investigation. We have interviewed in excess of 8,500 people. So naturally because of the quantity, the vast numbers involved, we have on a previous occasion and now recently, brought in another team that weren't involved to review the investigation."
Insp O'Reilly was speaking on RTÉ's News at One programme yesterday. Gardaí said last night there had been no fresh information as yet as a result of the renewed appeal.
Gardaí were pursuing a "number of definite lines of inquiry" and it was "always a possibility" that the killer had come from Britain, Insp O'Reilly said. There were a number of people who had not been eliminated from the investigation because they had been unable to provide alibis for the night in question, he said.
"We have arrested a number of people and we have eliminated a number of people. There are still people that we have failed to eliminate from our inquiries, and the investigation is ongoing and will be until we reach a successful conclusion with it."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dún Laoghaire Garda station on 01-6665012 or any Garda station.
