Woman found dead had been beaten, strangled

A young mother who was found dead in a vacant building in Cork City had been beaten about the head and strangled.

Dr Margot Bolster, the assistant state pathologist, confirmed the cause of Amy McCarthy’s death as an inquest into the 22-year-old’s death was opened and adjourned yesterday.

Ms McCarthy, a mother of one from Mount Carmel Rd in Greenmount, Cork, was found by paramedics in a room on the second floor of a vacant office block on Sheare’s St in the city centre at around 7am on April 30.