Body found under house had been dismembered

The body of a teenage girl buried in the foundations of house in Northern Ireland had been dismembered, it was disclosed yesterday.

Sylvia Fleming, 17, had been missing from her home in Omagh, Co Tyrone for nearly a month. Detectives were questioning a number of people about the murder.

Part of the girl's body were found on the site of a house under construction on the town's Circular Road. Police moved in with digging equipment after a tip-off.

Sylvia had been working as a care assistant at a nursing home in Omagh when she vanished. She disappeared on 3 April after leaving a friend's home in the town's Strathroy area. She apparently left to visit another friend with pounds 30 in her purse.

Police carried out a series of searches, including local rivers. On Saturday, they dug up the foundations of the house on the Circular Road where parts of the girl's body were recovered.