Detectives no closer to making arrests amid claims the State’s child protection system had ‘failed’ Co Louth boy
A mechanical digger used by gardaí in a search in Dundalk , Co Louth for missing boy Kyran Durnin leaves the area on Thursday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA WireSome of the calls have included claimed sightings of the boy, which detectives hope will aid them to establish when he was last seen alive, and whether that was over two years ago as suspected.
“If you arrest someone now, it is then much harder to arrest them for a second time in the same investigation,” said one source. “You’d have to have new grounds, new evidence, for a second arrest.”said the possibility that a boy had been missing for two years and possibly murdered, and this having gone unnoticed for so long, was an “extraordinary incident”. It was one he had not seen the like of in his more than 40 years in policing, he said.
However, investigations since then have found no evidence Kyran was alive at any time since he was last seen at his Dundalk national school close to the end of school year in May or June 2022.
Drogheda Louth An-Garda-Siochana Dundalk Caoilfhionn-Gallagher Drew-Harris Tusla
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