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MANUELA Riedo suffered a horrific death. She fought valiantly last Monday night to ward off the predator who took her life on a lonely shortcut beside the railway track in Galway.

What kind of monster kills like this?

Two leading forensic psychiatrists have this weekend attempted to create a psychological profile of Riedo's murderer for the Sunday Tribune.

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New research which suggests a link between genes and anti-social behaviour among abused boys has reopened the classic debate about whether nature or nurture is responsible for crime. A leading forensic psychologist tells BBC News Online the behaviour of sex killers such as Fred West could be explained by the state of the brain.

Scientists say distinct differences in the brain activity of paedophiles have been found using scanning technology.