Tania's death was brutal and painful, police say

Disturbing new information has been revealed in the Tania McKenzie homicide inquiry.
Miss McKenzie's naked body was found floating in the Whanganui River on January 7, her 20th birthday. Police said she died of massive head injuries.
Inquiry head Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Oxnam yesterday said the head injuries that caused Miss McKenzie's death were savage.
"The injuries she sustained were savage and brutal, and there is evidence that she suffered a painful death," Mr Oxnam said.
Police haven't commented how the injuries were inflicted or if a weapon was used. They didn't rule out that there might be more than one offender and believed at least one of them would have received scratches or other injuries.
Post-mortem examination results also revealed Miss McKenzie was sexually violated "in a most degrading manner".
Mr Oxnam said police were confident Miss McKenzie was killed near the riverbank and then dragged into the river.
He declined to comment on why the information was being released now, a little over a month since the inquiry, dubbed Operation Somme, was launched.
He told the Chronicle the inquiry hadn't established a suspect.
Police also revealed yesterday that they were searching for Miss McKenzie's boots and her cellphone.
The boots are a pair of Pulp "fat cat" boots, size 8, and a Nokia cellphone.
Mr Oxnam declined to say what other articles of Miss McKenzie's clothing were still missing.
"There's evidence Tania was north of the Dublin St Bridge and a separate sighting of a young woman being chased along Glasgow St. I want to know if that was Tania or someone else," he said.
The Operation Somme inquiry featured on the Police Ten-7 programme last night on TV2, but Mr Oxnam didn't want to compare it to another documentary that featured hitchhiker Mona Blades on Tv recently.
That documentary sparked dozens of calls to police, but Mr Oxnam said the only case he was focused on was Miss McKenzie's.
Forty investigators remained working on Operation Somme.