THE parents of murdered Jastine Valdez are "disappointed" her killer died so quickly - because they still have questions.
Mark Hennessy (40) was shot dead by a Garda officer about 24 hours after he was suspected of kidnapping and strangling 24-year-old Ms Valdez in an apparently random attack in Co Wicklow.
Ms Valdez's body was discovered in thick undergrowth in the Puck's Castle area of Co Dublin in May. The accountancy student, originally from the Philippines, lived in Enniskerry in Wicklow.
In their first interview since Jastine's death, parents Danny and Tess Valdez spoke to Miriam O'Callaghan on RTE Radio One.
"When she didn't come home by around 7.30 in the evening I knew there was sort of a gut feeling in me that I knew that was something wrong," Tess said.
"It's unbelievable, we can't believe that's what happened."
Tess added that it did not help ease the pain when Hennessy was killed.
"We didn't like that he was killed, it didn't change anything. It didn't matter, Jastine was gone, we were also sad he had passed away," she added.
"We felt bad that he was killed quite quickly because we wanted to find out what was running in his head. We were disappointed he was killed, there were a lot of questions in our mind, we wanted to know more about why he wanted to do such a terrible thing."
