By Michele Canning Smith

THE BODY of a young Strabane woman has yet to be returned to her family, ten days after her death.

Funeral arrangements for the burial of Tania McDaid may not be known until tomorrow (Fri) as her mum and siblings wait for her remains to be brought home.

The body of 35-year-old Tania was found in a burnt out car by a forestry worker in Gortin Glen last Monday.

Her death was the culmination of a 14 year battle with mental illness.

Her eldest sister has spoken to the Strabane Chronicle of the sheer devastation felt by the family at the loss of a beautiful sister and daughter.

Roma McDaid said her youngest sister was "a bubbly, lovely girl, beautiful, both inside and out."

Tania had suffered from mental illness since the age of 21 and had spent the last 14 years battling against it.

"From the age of 21, Tania had suffered from mental illness but underneath all that she was a beautiful person, and anyone who knew her could see past the illness.

"We are just completely devastated by what has happened. There is nothing more that we can say," said Roma.

She said that her sister had recently gone on holiday to America with her mum Marie to visit her eldest sister Hayley, who works as a doctor in the US.

"In the past year, Tania's improvement was remarkable and she seemed to have started to come to terms with her illness, so we as a family had no inkling that anything like this would happen."

Tania lived in a flat, close to her mum's home at Lisnafin Park.

She was the youngest of three sisters, and also had a younger brother, James.

She is also survived by her mum Marie and extended family circle. She was predeceased by her dad James.

Police in Strabane have said that a definite line of inquiry is being followed and a crime is not suspected.

Police have thanked the public for their help in the inquiry.

Meanwhile, the death of a man in Omagh on Monday night is not being treated as suspicious, say police.