Woman appeals for return of sister’s body a decade after disappearance

THE sister of a carer who vanished after a trip to the chipper more than 10 years ago has made a fresh appeal for the return of her body.

Sandra Collins was just a few days short of her 30th birthday when she walked into the rural Mayo village of Killala for groceries for her disabled aunt at around 7.15pm on December 4, 2000 — but she never came home.

Just after 11pm that night she reappeared and ordered chips and a steak-and-kidney pie in the Country Kitchen takeaway in the village but the missing four hours between her two purchases have never been explained.