Mother pleads with killer to give up

THE mother of missing Offaly woman Fiona Pender pleaded with her daughter’s killer to give himself up.

Josephine Pender made the call as a 30-strong Garda team, backed up by 22 soldiers, began a second search for her daughter’s remains in a wooded area along the Slieve Bloom mountains.

25-year-old Fiona Pender, who was seven months pregnant, went missing from the flat she shared with her boyfriend in Tullamore on August 22, 1996.