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29/07/2008
Derry Vigil As West Belfast Death Probed
PSNI officers are questioning two men after a woman's body was found in west Belfast yesterday.
The body was discovered in a house in Pollard Street off the Springfield Road shortly after noon on Monday afternoon.
A post mortem examination is to be carried out and the woman's name has not been released yet.
The police said they were working to established the circumstances surrounding the death.
Meanwhile, 100 people have held a vigil outside the Londonderry home of Jean Quigley who was murdered at the weekend.
The body of Mrs Quigley, 30, a pregnant mother of four, was found at her home in Cornshell Fields on Saturday night.
The cause of death was still under investigation but Mrs Quigley had been brutally beaten.
(BMcC)
The body was discovered in a house in Pollard Street off the Springfield Road shortly after noon on Monday afternoon.
A post mortem examination is to be carried out and the woman's name has not been released yet.
The police said they were working to established the circumstances surrounding the death.
Meanwhile, 100 people have held a vigil outside the Londonderry home of Jean Quigley who was murdered at the weekend.
The body of Mrs Quigley, 30, a pregnant mother of four, was found at her home in Cornshell Fields on Saturday night.
The cause of death was still under investigation but Mrs Quigley had been brutally beaten.
(BMcC)
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