Body confirmed as Dublin woman

The body of a woman found near Medjugorje in Bosnia has been identified as missing Dublin woman Winnie Brady.

The body of a woman found near Medjugorje in Bosnia has been identified as missing Dublin woman Winnie Brady.

Ms Brady disapeared last September while on pilgrimage. Badly decomposed remains were found in the hills above the Bosnian village this week.

Ms Brady's husband Stephen travelled to Bosnia and identified items of jewellery this morning, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Results of a postmortem are expected later today or tomorrow, but it is understood that local investigators do not suspect foul play in the death of Ms Brady (59).

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A local man, Vidan Kozina, found the suspected corpse of Ms Brady last Sunday while he was hunting boar on the rarely visited slopes behind Apparition Hill, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to six children from the village in 1981.

While Bosnian police do not believe Ms Brady was coerced to climb the hill, they appear baffled as to how she crossed rough terrain to a remote location some 3km from the centre of Medjugorje.

They are also puzzled as to how no one seems to have seen her walking through the village or climbing the hill in the middle of the day at a busy time of the year.

Ms Brady was last seen leaving her guesthouse at about midday on September 6th, after earlier declining to join the rest of her pilgrimage group at a prayer meeting because her arthritic knee was giving her pain.

She never returned, and a huge search, involving sniffer dogs, soldiers, hundreds of volunteers and a helicopter, yielded no clues as to her fate.