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Garda launch new appeal for missing Offaly woman GARDAÍ
have appealed for information on missing Fiona Pender on the 11th anniversary
of her disappearance.
The young Offaly woman who was seven months pregnant at the time was last
seen in the company of her mother out shopping for baby clothes the evening
before she went missing.
She has never been found.
The head of a special garda unit set-up to investigate several missing
women cases said that as 11 years have passed someone with crucial details
may be able to come forward.
Superintendent John McMahon said: “People who felt at the time that
they couldn’t talk to gardaí may be in a position now given
the passage of over 10 years.
“Those who are withholding information, we’d ask them to come
forward.
“Every so often we get a burst of information. Something is triggered
in people’s minds. All that information is checked out.
“We’re investigating it as best we can and are anxious to
find out her whereabouts.”
Fiona, who was 25, was described as being in good spirits and looking
forward to her child’s birth when she vanished.
She did not take her passport, credit cards or a change of clothes with
her.
She had been living in Croydon in south London before returning to Ireland
in February 1996 with her boyfriend.
Her mother Josephine has said she believes her daughter was murdered. |
