Father tells of attempt to report daughter missing

The father of a teenager found in a shallow grave in 2012 has described the day she disappeared in 2008, and his unsuccessful attempt to report her missing.

Dumitru Rostas was giving evidence to the Central Criminal Court yesterday in the trial of the man charged with his daughter’s murder.

Alan Wilson, aged 35, of New Street Gardens, Dublin, is charged with murdering Marioara Rostas, 18, at a house on Brabazon St, The Coombe, between January 7 and 8, 2008. He has pleaded not guilty.