Phoenix Park victim identified

Gardaí are continuing their investigation into the death of a Romanian woman whose remains were found in Dublin's Phoenix Park…

Gardaí are continuing their investigation into the death of a Romanian woman whose remains were found in Dublin's Phoenix Park last week.

The woman was identified last night as a 50-year-old mother of two from Romania after DNA samples taken from a family in the west of the country were examined.

The woman, who was found in the park with multiple stab wounds on August 5th by two passers-by, came from near the city of Timisoara.

She had been living in Ireland for a number of years and had left her family behind in Romania.

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She was homeless and had lost touch with people she initially met in Ireland.

A liaison with the Romanian community in Ireland contacted Interpol earlier this week after identifying her from photographs released earlier this week.

Interpol contacted a family in Romania on Thursday and DNA samples from the family were sent to the Garda Forensic Science Laboratory in the Phoenix Park yesterday for analysis.