Turkey: Waiter comes out in the Court after killing of County Down women

A 17-year-old boy has come out in court after two women from Newry were found attempted to death near the city of Izmir.

It is considered that Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, both 54, were convinced to take a car trip with the 17-year-old boy on the cause that he desired them to meet up his father. But he drove off the main road and into a forest where he allegedly cut their throats and attempted them repeatedly. Mrs Graham’s daughter Shannon, 15, moved up the alarm when the pair failed to come back.

Turkish police investigated the 17-year-old, illustrated as Shannon’s boyfriend, who at first denied any participation with their evaporation. The youngster said he had undergone a cut hand endeavoring to fight off abductors who had bunched the women in a van. Search squad, however, found bloody clothing put up in a bin near his home and tackled the youngster who acknowledged the murders.

The boy, named as Recep Cetin but who utilizes the name Alex, said he took the women in his father's car to the forest near Buca, on the outer edge of Izmir, and murdered them. He came out in court on Friday evening in a beginning hearing.

Raymond McGuinness, Shannon's father, was due to fly to Turkey on Saturday to carry his daughter home with her mother's body and that of her friend.

He said: "He told Shannon that he had striving to end the abductors and he had a cut on his hand and that's how he suffered it." The two dead women are from Newry in Co Down, Northern Ireland, but were visiting on Irish passports, which is not unusual. Mrs Graham had rented an assets in the well known resort of Kusadasi, about 60 miles to the south of Izmir and on the Aegean, and uses up long times in the area all summer.

Mrs Graham's sister, Monica Higgins, said: "It's totally overwhelming. We've just found out. My mother's in the car crying her eyes out. "We're struggling to work with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs to search what accurately occurred to her." Shannon was not with the women when they were assaulted and had been on a boat trip out of Kusadasi for the day. She is absolute to have been in an affiliation with the waiter, who had been keeping on with the group, for three years.

Sources said the waiter had been humiliated by the manners of the British women, who get pleasure from late nights and the company of local men, it was asserted. The Turkish news agency Anatolia reported that police are inspecting statements that the girl's mother had rejected to permit the young couple to marry. It is assured the waiter's father and a taxi driver was also detained. Shannon was relieved on Friday by a Kusadasi-based Irish hotelier at the police station in Izmir as an Irish Embassy officer was sent to help the youngster until her father landed.

Local sources asserted Mrs Graham had wedded a Kurdish man some time before but only four people were residing at the house. It was also advised that Shannon had started to mix with a dire crowd during this year's summer trip. Ms Dinsmore had been a personal of Newry and Mourne District Council. She also worked in a local cab firm up until last Christmas. Her mother passed away four weeks ago. The two women had been constantly visitors to Kusadasi for years, staying in a residence owned by Mr. McGuinness.

In a proclamation, members of the Dinsmore family spoke of their sadness.

"John and George Dinsmore are ruined by the awful death of their adored sister Kathy Dinsmore while on holiday in Turkey," it said. "The Dinsmore family is thankful for the numerous sympathies that they have got and appeal for solitude during this hard time." The blinds of Ms Graham's Newry home were drawn and the garden of the mid-terraced home overgrown as she has been residing in her second home in Kusadasi for the previous some months. Her neighbors in Toragh Park, a quiet estate on the remote areas of Newry, said her love of the Aegean resort had drawn her to use up increasingly time in the country. Nicola Hyland, who lives two doors down with her young family, said it was a true disaster.

She was a charming lady, so social able, always had a smile for you," she said. "I just can't believe what come about to her." Margaret Ritchie, the MP for South Down, said she was stunned by the deaths. She said: “My thoughts are with those implicated in this dreadful incident. “And also with their families, who never acquired the chance to say goodbye to their loved ones.

“I think all the people of South Down will be disappointed by this news.”

Members of the boy’s family have made unproved argues that he has been beaten, subjected to electric shocks and had his fingernails detached by the police.

The Turkish police have gave no remarks on the mishap.