Siobhan Hynes, murdered teenager
Gardaí in Galway have arrested two men and a woman for questioning in connection with the death of Siobhan Hynes. The 17-year-old teenage schoolgirl's body was found on a beach near Carraroe on Sunday 6th December.
The two men, who are in their mid-twenties, were arrested in Galway City and the woman who was in her mid fifties was taken into custody in the Carraroe area.
All three are being held at the West Galway Divisional Headquarers at Mill Street, under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act of 1984. They can be held for up to 12 hours and must then be either charged or released.
Siobhan Hynes' body was found on this isolated stretch rocky foreshore just over a mile from Carraroe on the afternoon of Sunday December 6th. Gardaí immediately launched a full-scale murder hunt when they established that she had been violently attacked and beaten somewhere between here and the nearby village.
Siobhan, who lived at Lettermore, had spent Saturday night in the company of friends in Carraroe and the alarm was raised when she returned home. A team of 60 Gardaí and detectives have spent the past 6 weeks searching for her killer.
Last month a man in his mid-20s from the Carraroe area was arrested and questioned, but was later released without charge.
