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A heartbroken dad whose daughter was raped and murdered wants her killer to die in jail.

Andy Hynes said he can never forgive evil John McDonagh and hopes he rots in jail for taking away his 17-year old daughter Siobhan.

McDonagh was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for the murder but Andy said he dreads the day when he might be released.

He also said that as long as he lives he will never forgive the monster who took away his lovely daughter.

He said: “I’ll never forgive him. I don’t even think about that angle. I’m happy with the way I am at the moment, unforgiving.

“If ever I was to forgive that man what does that say about Siobhan? Was it Siobhan’s fault...that he couldn’t help it. That it was a mistake.

“There’s no way in the world I could forgive him.”

A week after celebrating her 17th birthday McDonagh brought Siobhan to a remote beach near Carraroe, Connemara in December 1998 where he murdered her.

In a moving interview with Miriam O’Callagan on the John Murray show Andy said his daughter’s killer believed he would get away with murder.

He said: “She was brutally raped and murdered and her body thrown into the sea. I suppose he hoped the sea would take her away and never be seen again and he’d get away with it.

“Thankfully a local man found her body the following day.”

Vile McDonagh, 39, has never shown any remorse and is still denying he killed the teenager.

Holding back tears, Andy added: “It’s the loss of the child and what happened to her and the brutality of the act that he committed really hurts me.

“To lose a child in that situation, to lose a child in any situation, is awful, but the pain inside is so intense that you just can’t get out of it.

“Your life is never the same again because you’re the parents of a murdered child and always will be and she’s not coming home. It really hurts.

But he also feels anger towards Siobhan’s killer and hopes he will stay in jail for the rest of his life.

(Image: Ronan Quinlan)

He said: “I feel anger that my daughter was taken away in such a cruel way. I feel anger towards the person who did it.

“I only hope and prey that the perpetrator stays in prison as long as he lives.

“I known that’s probably unrealistic but at least many, many more years yet.

“We are mentally preparing for it. It’s twelve years now and since he’s not admitting it so that’s not going to help him so hopefully he’ll stay there.

“For a heinous crime like that no one should be allowed to walk free after 12 or 13 years. Life should mean life when they get sentenced for life. That’s what it should mean.

Andy said that if the killer ever came back to live in Carraroe it would be an “impossible” situation.

“I don’t wish to die young but I hope I never see it.”