The parents of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo are attending a press conference in Galway this afternoon.

THE parents of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo will be in Galway today to outline the plans for the foundation set up in her memory.

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 organiser of a fundraiser for murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo has given an assurance that he has “at all times had approval” from her parents for the concert.

EVIL Gerald Barry was handed a double life sentence with a chilling warning that if he was released he would rape and kill again.

GERALD BARRY, the 29-year-old Galway city man who is serving life for the murder of Swiss student Manuela Riedo, was given two concurrent life sentences yesterday for the double rape of a French student in August 2007 – committed just seven weeks before he murdered Ms Riedo in October 2007.

If previous convictions were taken into account and Barry denied bail, Manuela might still be alive, writes Jennifer Hough.

MR JUSTICE Paul Carney was emphatic yesterday when, in Galway, he sentenced murderer and double rapist Gerald Barry, aged 29, to two life terms for raping a French student.

Gerald Barry, the 29-year-old Galway city man who is serving life for the murder of Swiss student Manuela Riedo, was given two concurrent life sentences today for the double rape of a French student in August 2007, committed just weeks before he murdered Ms Riedo.

THE Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a French student at knife-point.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

THE Galway man who murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo has pleaded guilty to raping a French tourist.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has now pleaded guilty to raping a French woman in 2007.

A jury at the inquest into the death of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has recommended that no student should ever walk the line between Ceannt Station and Renmore in Galway city alone.

The inquest into the death of Swiss student Manuela Riedo is due to get underway in Galway today.

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.

The family of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo have set up a foundation for victims of rape and sexual assault across Europe.

An Irish publican is setting up a new foundation in honour of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo, who was murdered in Galway in October 2007.

TWO mothers who lost sons in savage attacks have called for changes in the way the law deals with violent offenders.

A Galway man has been jailed for life for the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007.

The jury at the trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has been sent home for the night.

A GALWAY man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

A Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

THE trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area, where her body was found, on the night of her murder.

The trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area on the night of her alleged murder.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard that Swiss teenager Manuelo Riedo died from strangulation.

THE trial of a man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in Galway in 2007 has heard that his DNA was found in a used condom near her body.

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.

The parents of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo have visited the scene where their daughter was killed in Galway last year.

A 27-year-old man has appeared at a Galway court charged with the murder of Swiss student Manuela Riedo.

A man in his late twenties is due to appear before a Galway court this morning in connection with the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo.

Two men remain in garda custody this morning in connection with the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in Galway.

Gardaí in Galway have arrested a fourth person in connection with the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in the city last week.

Two men and a woman have been arrested by police investigating the murder of a 17-year-old Swiss schoolgirl.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in Galway last week are renewing their appeal for help from the public.

STUDENT leaders and public representatives in Galway are to begin a campaign to make safe the isolated walkway where Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo was murdered.

PREPARATIONS are being made for the return of the remains of murdered Swiss language student Manuela Riedo to her home country.

Young people in Galway are being urged to travel in pairs following the murder of a 17-year-old female Swiss student in the city this week.

A Swiss student found murdered in inner-city scrubland was suffocated to death, it was revealed today.