Gardaí probe claims dead woman was lap dancer

GARDAÍ are investigating claims that a non-national found dead in South Kilkenny at the weekend worked as a lap dancer in Dublin and Limerick.

The decomposed and dismembered remains of mother of two, Paiche Onyemaechi, aged 25, were discovered wrapped in a bin liner and propped against a tree under a bridge in Piltown, Kilkenny, last Friday.

Gardaí leading the murder investigation are focusing their inquiries around Waterford City where the woman lived with her Nigerian husband and two sons, aged one-and-a-half and three-and-a-half.

The deceased, who was originally from Malawi, was known to her friends as Gina and was identified on Monday evening from fingerprint records.

The deceased is said to have gone missing on a number of occasions in the past and regularly commuted to Dublin and Limerick to work as a lap dancer. She is believed to have been involved in prostitution locally.

Sources within the non-national community in Waterford said yesterday the woman’s lifestyle would have been well-known in the African community.

A full-scale murder enquiry is currently continuing, along with a technical examination at the woman’s home in St Herblain Park. She was reported missing by her husband Chika, aged 31, on July 8.

She and Chika were married in the city’s registry office three years ago.