Detective to renew probe for missing Offaly woman

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has assigned a detective superintendent to investigate the case of missing Co Offaly woman Fiona Pender.

The 25-year-old hairdresser and model was seven months pregnant when she disappeared from her flat at Church St in Tullamore on Aug 22, 1996.

Her heartbroken mother Josephine Pender, 63, has suffered ill-health, insomnia, and incessant anguish since Fiona’s disappearance.