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MORE THAN 700 people have contributed to a Go Fund Me campaign set up to support the family of 24-year-old Jastine Valdez.
The campaign was set up by Outreach Ireland, a group that assists people from the Philippines to renew their passports through the Philippines Embassy in London.
Jastine went missing from Enniskerry, Co Wicklow on Saturday after reports that she was forced into a car. Yesterday, Gardaí searching for the accountancy student found a body in thick gorse in the Puck’s Castle area of Dublin.
The campaign has already garnered more than €20,000 worth of donations since it was set up last night, quickly surpassing its €10,000 goal.
The page was started by Raymond Garrett, who was the Director of Operations of Ireland’s Philippines consulate for five years.
He told TheJournal.ie that the fund was set up with a goal of €10,000 because that is the nominal cost of repatriation.
“This is never going to take away the family’s pain. It’s not to console the family. They have a daughter that’s never coming home.
But what it does do is remove the question of ‘how do we pay for this?’
Garrett explained that they were moved to set up the GoFundMe because they had been approached by numerous people in the Philippines community who wanted to give money to the family.
In the Philippines the tradition of ‘Abuloy’ sees people giving money to grieving families as a way of showing support.
“Every cent is going to the family,” Garrett said. “We’re being completely transparent about this.”
The transfer and oversight of all the donations will be made public and will be overseen by a Dublin-based solicitor.
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This winner of this week’s Ireland’s dumbest criminal.
They’re all winners.
Should have been a maniac instead of a brainiac
may be dumb but dangerous as any simple google search will show
Recaptured?! He handed himself in.
And didn’t even throw away the knife first. What a genius.
You’d have to wonder where he tried to hide it. Seems like he’s enjoying himself though.
Why do skangers always look the same??? sound the same who are they trying to emulate? They should be aiming themselves to be like enda kenny
Socio – economics peer pressure basically makes them want to fit in. The real question is why anybody who is not a criminal wants to dress like one.
Obviously not too worried about the consequences of his actions and why should he because there are no consequences.
So he handed himself in whilst carrying a weapon. Ireland’s dumbest criminal? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Clearly he just knows that he will. It get any extra prison time for absconding or for carrying a weapon whilst a prisoner.
It will just give him temporary kudos amongst the skang fraternity
Who is in today? haha!
46 convictions at 22 years of age…ffs…what a waste of space!
can’t doubt his dedication…. if this skobe has been done 46 times. imagine what he’s got away with…… I’d have him and his ilk doing 20 years hard labour or chain ganged
Plonker!
Let’s hope the authorities manage to hold on to him this time
Left through the back door of the courthouse! I suppose we should be grateful he isn’t Hannibal Lector
what a dope he walked into a cop shot known he was wanted carrying a weapon, surely he must have known he would be searched
cop shop
No point in been stupid if you don’t show it !
*being
Yawn !
He’s not called short planks for nothing.
What a dud.
He looks like a right F×ckin Donkey!
A knife,a number of phones, and a USB stick. Jaysus
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