Man held after woman found dying at roadside

A MAN was in custody last night following the death of a Lithuanian woman found dying on a roadside on the outskirts of Waterford city early yesterday.

The 35-year-old, the mother of at least two children, had suffered serious head injuries and gardaí are treating her death as suspicious.

A postmortem was carried out on the body yesterday afternoon to establish the exact cause of death. Gardaí re-examined the scene last night in the wake of the post-mortem findings.