Jastine Valdez planned a new life in Ireland

Jastine Valdez planned to settle in Ireland and make a new life, her parents said.

The 24-year-old student, who was abducted and murdered in Wicklow by Mark Hennessy last Saturday, had recently followed her parents over to Ireland.

“Our daughter’s plans were to settle in Ireland, buy a house here, and make a new life,” her parents Teresita and Danilo Valdez said in a statement yesterday.