Karen Buckley: Police arrest 21-year-old man after human remains found

 
Search: Police search garages and the surrounding areas near a block of flats in Dorchester Avenue in Glasgow (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
Gareth Vipers16 April 2015
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Police investigating the disappearance of a young woman have arrested a 21-year-old man after human remains were discovered.

Karen Buckley vanished after a night out with friends in Glasgow at the weekend.

Police Scotland said remains have been found at a farm in north Glasgow following a four-day search.

They have not yet been formally identified but relatives of Miss Buckley have been informed.

Miss Buckley had arrived at The Sanctuary nightclub with friends at about 11.45pm on Saturday and at around 1am she told them she was going to the toilet. She failed to return and did not take her jacket.

Specialist police divers, a helicopter crew and search dogs were involved in the search for the qualified nurse who moved to Glasgow in February.

After her handbag was found in Dawsholm Park on Tuesday the search moved to High Craigton farm in the north of the city.

Officers cordoned off land around the farm and near Windyhills Golf Club on a country road between Milngavie and Drymen and a number of support vehicles and fire engines were moved to the scene.

Police had previously appealed for information about a grey car spotted on the road between 11am and 3pm on Monday.

Earlier yesterday, officers had been searching a flat in Dorchester Avenue in Glasgow where the student was reportedly last seen.

Her family, from Cork in the Republic of Ireland, travelled to Scotland on Tuesday and at a press conference, her mother Marian Buckley, 61, said they were desperate to get their only daughter home safely.

A fundraising page set up by former classmates of Miss Buckley to cover her family's expenses while they are in Scotland has raised more than £3,000.

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