THE mother of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo cried as she described the breakdown of relations with the founder of a charity set up in memory of her only child.

THE parents of a Swiss student murdered just days after she arrived in Galway hope to travel to the city for a charity night in her memory.

A CANDLE flame flickered in front of framed photographs of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo as her parents launched a new foundation for rape and sexual assault victims in Dublin yesterday.

A popular Swiss student was strangled to death just two days after she arrived in Ireland to learn English, a court heard today.

A man who today denied murdering a teenage Swiss student will go on trial tomorrow.