Jastine Valdez found dead. No Ana discussion please. Mod warning post 1

pah

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/jastine-valdez-mark-hennessy-14685762

Looks like it's official

iamwhoiam

pah wrote: »

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/jastine-valdez-mark-hennessy-14685762

Looks like it's official

The poor girl and her poor family . Of course no one would want this outcome but at least they will know now and be able to grieve and bury her .
RIP Jastine

JaMarcus

Ugh. Was hard to see this ending any other way after yesterday's developments unfortunately.

billybonkers

A body has been found in the search for missing 24-year-old Jastine Valdez from Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.

Investigators discovered remains next to Pucks Castle golf course, not far from where a purse believed to belond to Jasmine was discovered earlier today.


Gardai have been searching an area in Rathmichael, Co Dublin this morning as part of their investigations into her disappearance.

Omackeral

From DublinLive

A body has been found in the search for missing 24-year-old Jastine Valdez from Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.

Investigators discovered remains next to Pucks Castle golf course, not far from where a purse believed to belond to Jasmine was discovered earlier today.

Gardai have been searching an area in Rathmichael, Co Dublin this morning as part of their investigations into her disappearance.

Purse found in search for missing Jastine Valdez in Rathmichael
Areas including 'the scalp' and a walk on Killiney Hill remain cordoned off while a Garda helicopter has been combing the area.

It’s understood gardai are searching the area after studying the suspect’s car computer.

The Defence Forces and the Civil Defence are helping with the search.
Gardai issued a statement earlier today looking to speak to anyone who may have noticed suspicious activity in the area of Puckscastle Lane and Kiltiernan Lead Mines, Rathmichael, from 6pm last Saturday 19 May 2018 to 8pm Sunday 20 May 2018.

The statement read: "Gardare looking to speak to any persons who may have observed suspicious activity in the area of Puckscastle Lane and Kiltiernan Lead Mines, Rathmichael, from 6pm last Saturday 19th May 2018 to 8pm Sunday 20th May 2018. Anyone with information, however insignificant should contact Bray Garda Station on 01 6665300, Garda Confidential Line 1 800 666 111 or any Garda Station."

wakka12

Ah lord, such a needless loss of a young life RIP.

dar_cool

Horrible dirty scumbag. Hope he rots in hell

tayto lover

Very sad but when he was found yesterday and she was not in the car I feared the worst. He had already ended her life.
RIP little lady.

BoroMan32

Desperate news.

Poor girl, 5ft and slight build, probably looked like more like a teenager/child to that evil scumbag.

The Talking Bread

This is the most horrific thing. The poor beautiful young girl with everything in life ahead of her. Her poor poor family.

This case has shook me and never extremely invest my emotions so much. I think it was the fact we were following it all as it went along.

So sad.

Captain Obvious

I hope some answers can be found. How does a seemingly average family man decide to go out and grab someone off the street and murder them?

bb1234567

Dozens of lives now ruined forever and a young life extinguished because this man couldnt control his sick sexual urges. Hard to stomach. RIP.

dbas

What a degenerate scumbag

Creative83

That's dreadful news RIP

Butcher Boy

dar_cool wrote: »

Horrible dirty scumbag. Hope he rots in hell

didn't he get the right ending the ****ing **** at least he cant harm any one else now anyway.

Grid.

Terrible outcome...God love her.....R.I.P:(

eviltwin

Captain Obvious wrote: »

I hope some answers can be found. How does a seemingly average family man decide to go out and grab someone off the street and murder them?

Yeah this is what I can't get my head around.

bear1

In a way I'm glad he was shot dead but on the other I wish he had survived and spent the remainder of his days living in a box sized room.

eviltwin

eviltwin wrote: »

Yeah this is what I can't get my head around.

must have been obsessed.

irishproduce

Body found in Wicklow mountains now anyway

Mantis Toboggan

I'd be very surprised if it was just a random attack.

Mam of 4

So sad , her life cut out so soon and for what ?
One man's despicable actions .

Her poor family and what they still have to face in the days ahead .

Sometimes words aren't enough .

RIP Jastine

Thoughts and prayers with her family and friends. Rest In Peace

strandroad

Captain Obvious wrote: »

I hope some answers can be found. How does a seemingly average family man decide to go out and grab someone off the street and murder them?

Perhaps he wasn't so average. It was mentioned that the Gardai think he might have been a sex offender although not on the list. Perhaps accused or charged but not convicted, or similar. Or young offender with records purged.

irishproduce

A rotten dirtball.
A poster mentioned earlier, that only for someone saw the scuffle as he pulled her into the car, he would likely be watching this from the sidelines.
Who knows what else he has been responsible for. Hardly his first "go" at such an exercise one would think.

Omackeral

Mam of 4 wrote: »

So sad , her life cut out so soon and for what ?
One man's despicable actions .

Her poor family and what they still have to face in the days ahead .

Sometimes words aren't enough .

RIP Jastine

His poor family too. A wife and two children who'll have to live with that.

Sminkypinky

Terrible news. My wife and I have been following this (she's a Filipina). 
We feared the worst but hoped for the best.
RIP.

Huexotzingo

The Gardai gave him the justice he deserved.

megatron989

Now we will hopefully see why this happened. I doubt this was something that came out of the blue to his nearest and dearest. Sorry but they must have known something. Someone must've noticed some kind of off or odd behaviour at some point. Not that I'm blaming anyone, they would not have known what he was planning. But if we know the signs we at least learn something from this awful story.

billybonkers

Is it true the police did not investigate the scene of the kidnapping until the next morning?

Awful news
The poor girl

Mrsmum

Just so wrong for that to happen to her.

allthedoyles

May she Rest In Peace . The Garda did the right thing.

The Talking Bread

strandroad wrote: »

Perhaps he wasn't so average. It was mentioned that the Gardai think he might have been a sex offender although not on the list. Perhaps accused or charged but not convicted, or similar. Or young offender with records purged.

The poster said "seemingly" average family man. It is pretty clear he wasn;t your average man, the poster clearly is insinuating that to the man and woman on the street his actions are horrific and shocking

DrumSteve

Awful awful news. RIP.

Glad they shot the prick tbh.

Shurimgreat

He was a coward and a monster.

I hope there's no guff about a good family man who flipped etc.

ganmo

The Talking Bread wrote: »

The poster said "seemingly" average family man. It is pretty clear he wasn;t your average man, the poster clearly is insinuating that to the man and woman on the street his actions are horrific and shocking

There is no such thing as the average person

JaMarcus

Would rather he wasn't shot and had lived to see a proper punishment to be honest. Death seems like an easy, consequence-less way out.

xzanti

Horrific may she rest in peace.

A grim few days for our little country.

Laois_Man

Captain Obvious wrote: »

I hope some answers can be found. How does a seemingly average family man decide to go out and grab someone off the street and murder them?

And a more important question might be, is this the only time the absolute ****er has done this!

Omackeral

megatron989 wrote: »

Now we will hopefully see why this happened. I doubt this was something that came out of the blue to his nearest and dearest. Sorry but they must have known something. Someone must've noticed some kind of off or odd behaviour at some point. Not that I'm blaming anyone, they would not have known what he was planning. But if we know the signs we at least learn something from this awful story.

Gemma Dwyer knew nothing of her evil husband's deplorable actions.

Gwen Cooper

Awful news, although we all had a feeling that this will be the case. Thinking of the killer's family, trying to wrap their heads around that. And Jastine's poor family and the entire community dealing with such a tragedy. RIP.

endacl

billybonkers wrote: »

Is it true the police did not investigate the scene of the kidnapping until the next morning?

They focused their attention on looking for the vehicle that they had a clear description of. And tracked it down in short order. What would be the point of searching where she wasn’t any more?

ElChe32

Absolutely horrible news. The poor girl had so much of life to live. RIP Jastine.

RIP Jastine

Huexotzingo

Huexotzingo wrote: »

The Gardai gave him the justice he deserved.

Disagree. He deserved to live with the consequences until a ripe old age. Shooting was too good for him. Too quick.

Mam of 4

Omackeral wrote: »

His poor family too. A wife and two children who'll have to live with that.

Your heart would go out to all the families involved O , I said it last night . His parents/siblings ,wife,poor children ,they will all be living a nightmare wondering Why ..
Jastines family , doesn't bear thinking about what they will have to face yet as more details come to light .

This has touched everyone I think , the complete insanity of it all

Larbre34

Hennessy was obviously very ill in some way or other. Which will be of no consolation to the Valdez family, her friends and Community.

I cant help feeling thankful the Gardai shot him, probably saving them and the Country a drawn out case process. In time, it will give both families some chance to move on.

May she RIP.

jiltloop

OscarBluth wrote: »

But what makes a rapist? There was a study a number of years ago that showed that in South Africa, 10% of men ADMITTED to having raped a woman - it was a self-reporting study that was totally anonymous. The assumption, if I remember rightly, was that the levels of conflict in South Africa were a huge factor in this. The same applies with soldiers in war zones - lots of sex offences committed by soldiers who realistically, if they hadn't gone to war, would probably have never offended. And in post-conflict societies, it carries on for generations.

The attitudes that lead to this behaviour aren't innate. Something goes wrong - either with individuals, or with society. And when tragic things happen, we have to ask what it takes for us to look at our society and say this is a huge problem, what can we do to address it. Acting like its somehow victimising men to ask the question is a weak response. A tiny proportion of men are involved in this behaviour: but are we going to ignore it because they're male? Or because they're a tiny proportion? It makes no sense.

I'm all for targeting the root causes of violence/sexual violence but I don't think that identifying that the perpetrators are predominantly male is going to tell us much, as you say yourself it's a tiny minority of males who carry out these disgusting acts so clearly root cause is more complex than just being a gender issue.

I don't believe it's as simple as how these men are raised or what pornography they are viewing, I do think that there is probably a mixture of biological, social and nurture issues at the root of these people. I think there are probably endless combinations of each which could be affected by an endless combination of circumstances and as such if there is a solution which can prevent these people developing as they do it would be a complicated one.

I think where our society is badly failing, and this I believe is the simplest way to diminish the pain that these men cause in the short term, is that our judicial system is woefully inadequate for keeping the general public and the vulnerable safe. I believe that any violent/sexually violent crime should be heavily heavily punished with custodial sentences (not concurrent!).

If for instance there is a violent young member of society, and we see this very frequently, who has multiple convictions for violent offences they should be locked up for life. Keep them off the streets and crucially prevent them from having children of their own who are also brought up in violent households and learning violent behaviour and bad attitudes towards women (i.e in some cases against their own mother).

Violence in general is not taken seriously enough in our courts. 3 minor violent offences or 1 serious offence should be punished with at least 10 years in prison without parole. Subsequent convictions should then be punished with life, as in spending the rest of your life in prison. Rape or murder again life, mandatory sentence. This would surely dramatically reduce violent crime in our country.

BattleCorp

Deleted User wrote: »

Disagree. He deserved to live with the consequences until a ripe old age. Shooting was too good for him. Too quick.

Disagree.

Better off for everyone that he is dead. Zero chance of him reoffending in 10 - 15 years time.