According to reports, Gardaí have found a body during the search for missing 24-year-old Jastine Valdez.
It is understood that a body was located near Pucks Castle golf course in Shankill, where Gardaí found the student’s bag and ID earlier today.
A body has been found in the search for missing 24-year-old Jastine Valdez
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 21, 2018
Gardaí, the Defence Forces, civil defence and sniffer dogs had been searching a wooded area in the Rathmichael area this afternoon.
Last night, a suspect in the case, named locally as Mark Hennessy, was fatally injured by Gardaí in Cherrywood.
Gardai investigating the whereabouts of Jastine Valdez have found a body on the old Pucks Golf Course in South county Dublin
— Niamh Kat Kinsella (@Niamhk) May 21, 2018
Jastine has been missing since Saturday, May 19. Her reported disappearance followed an earlier incident near Enniskerry when shortly after 6.15pm Gardaí received a report of a female pedestrian being forced into a car on the R760 south of Enniskerry. The car involved in this incident was described to Gardaí as a dark coloured Nissan SUV.