‘Our worst fear’

THE parents of 12-year-old Michaela Davis, who died violently at the weekend, said it was their worst fear to “lose a child so full of life”.

Brendan and Deirdre Davis issued a statement after an 18-year-old appeared in court in Dublin charged with her murder.

Jonathan Byrne, from Lohunda Downs in Clonsilla, west Dublin – just a few streets from where the dead girl lived – is accused of the killing near the Porterstown Road, a few minutes’ walk from her home.