Hunt for Nigerian as former partner found beaten to death

GARDAÍ last night launched a manhunt after a young Jamaican woman was found bludgeoned to death in her apartment.

Detectives are searching for Nigerian-born Goodwill Udechuckwu, 29, in connection with the murder of his former partner. Udechuckwu was released from Cloverhill Prison on Friday.

The badly beaten body of Natasha Gray, 25, was found in a flat at Royal Canal View, Phibsborough in Dublin yesterday afternoon by a friend. She was beaten to death with a hammer. Her two children, both under four, were also in the flat at the time.