Article: A CRIME OF SHEER EVIL; Horrific: The badly beaten body of a Swiss student being carried from wasteland near Galway City yesterday Grim: Dr Cassidy took three hours to examine the scene Murder scene: Gardai quickly sealed off the area where the young woman's body was found yesterday by a passerby in the shadow of the Galway-Dublin train line.

Byline: BRIAN CARROLL

SHE was an 18-year-old girl who came to Ireland with a zest for life anda passion for learning.

She had taken the chance to study English in another country, travelling fromher native Switzerland to embrace a new culture and to immerse herself in thevibrant Galway student scene.

Yesterday, however, just weeks after she had arrived in this country, herblood-soaked body was found on wasteland near the Galway Institute ofTechnology.

Her head was covered and she was stripped naked from the waist down, suggestingthat she was subjected to a sexual assault before being battered to death.Thefirst-year student had only ...

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