THE family of a murdered Cork woman yesterday met with Justice Minister Michael McDowell to demand that her killer is not returned to Portugal.

MORE THAN 4,000 people have emailed Justice Minister Michael McDowell expressing outrage that a convicted Portuguese national, who repeatedly shot a young woman, leaving her to bleed to death in a hotel basement, could be sent home.

A MAN who left a young woman bleed to death after shooting her three times as he stole money to buy a plane ticket to Portugal may now be sent home courtesy of the Government.

A STATEMENT from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) read out on a radio show was the first time the family of a murder victim became aware that an investigation they have been campaigning for was under way.

AS the heat of a balmy summer’s day began to fade last night, the family of a young girl brutally shot dead last year stood in silent protest in a bid to force a State agency to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding her murder.

THE family of murder victim Gráinne Dillon wants her former employer prosecuted for criminal negligence.

A Portuguese man was charged today with the murder of a manager whose body was found in the kitchen of the hotel where she worked.