This country let Marioara down

The teenager had been in the country for only three weeks before she was abducted and murdered, writes Barry Cummins

When she was enticed into a car by a Dublin criminal on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan 6, 2008, Marioara Rostas was six weeks short of her 19th birthday. Weighing just eight stone and standing at 5ft 3in, Marioara looked much younger than her 18 years.

Life was tough for her and her family in Ireland. Marioara’s parents and other members of her family were in Ireland three months, but Marioara was only here three weeks before she was abducted and murdered.