‘Cold case’ leads to court after 12 years

SANDRA Collins, 29, had just gone to the shop for sausages on the night she vanished in the town of Killala, Co Mayo.

It was around 7.30pm on Monday, Dec 4, 2000, when Sandra left the home she shared with her aunt at Courthouse St, close to the town centre.

It’s known that she made it to Birrane’s shop where she bought sausages and firelighters. It was around 7.45pm when Maura Birrane served Sandra in the small shop on Church St.