Bodies of two stabbed women return home
Marion Elizabeth Graham and Kathy Dinsmore were stabbed while on extended holiday. Their bodies were returned to Newry and Warrenpoint, Co Down, yesterday ahead of their funerals tomorrow.
A Turkish waiter, Recep Cetin, the prime suspect in the double murder, may be held in prison until the end of Ramadan after a prosecutor was appointed to oversee charges.
It is likely the suspect, whose true age is not known, will be held in custody for at least another week as the Islamic holy month ends on August 30.
The two women, both aged 53 and from Newry, were murdered in woods 120km north of the holiday resort of Kusadasi last Thursday.
Shannon Graham, Ms Graham’s daughter, was among 10 car-loads of friends and family who accompanied the hearses on their journey from Dublin airport with a Garda escort.
The plane touched down shortly before 2pm, but the bodies did not leave the airport for about an hour as loved ones resolved formalities.
The hearses parted in Newry, with the women taken to separate undertakers, in the town and Warrenpoint. They were then taken to the family homes.
Mary McAuley was waiting for the procession near the Buttercrane shopping centre in Newry, where it split.
She said she had met Ms Graham.
“She was a lovely lady, just so kind and well-thought of locally.
“It is such a shame, everybody is shocked, we just cannot take in what happened. Your heart goes out for their family, it is unimaginable what they are going through.”
The funerals will be held tomorrow, back-to-back so that both sets of grieving relatives can pay their final respects.
