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Gardaí will resume an exhaustive search of a vacant lot this morning in search of the missing remains of a 17-year-old who was killed and dismembered last year.
The search involving some 30 officers from a large area behind the Rathmullen estate in Drogheda began yesterday.
The murdered teenager cannot be identified for legal reasons, but his murder and dismemberment shocked the nation.
Officers involved in yesterday’s search were targeting “key intelligence” and are hoping to find the only part of the boy’s body that remains missing, his torso.
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Gardai in the scene of a vacant lot next to the Rathmullen estate in Drogheda, where they are searching for the remains of a teenager. Photography; Gerry mooney
There have been no arrests at this stage of the investigation. Yesterday no properties were registered.
“Gardai believes that the torso may have been thrown into a deep drain in the wasteland,” said a senior source.
“These searches are very thorough and very thorough – there are Garda forensic experts,” said a senior source.
Gardaí said officers were being assisted by Louth’s divisional search unit, Garda water and dog units and the Garda headquarters technical office.
The teenager was killed and massacred in a house in Drogheda during a dispute between two gangs in the town of Co Louth.
The remains, including the limbs, were found in a bag in Moatview Gardens, Coolock, on January 13 of last year.
Two days later, the boy’s head and hands were found in the trunk of a burned-out car on Trinity Terrace, near Ballybough, in the city center north of Dublin.
Eight people have already been arrested in the murder investigation and two men have appeared in court.
Sources said that several other people are expected to be arrested in the coming weeks.
Last month, the gangster in the Drogheda dispute, Paul Crosby, was released without charge after being arrested at Mountjoy prison and questioned about the boy’s murder.
The main suspect in the case was North Dublin gangster Robbie Lawlor, who was shot and killed in Belfast last April.
Since the murder of the teenager, Gardaí has continued a massive crackdown on the opposing gangs and seized € 1.2 million in drugs and € 1.5 million in cash in Co Louth last year.
In Drogheda alone, 95 suspected drug traffickers were arrested and more than € 500,000 worth of drugs were seized during Operation Stratus.
The 39-year-old man who found the teenager’s remains in a bag in Moatview Gardens told the Sunday World his horror.
He said that shortly after 10 p.m. on January 13 last year, he noticed something outside his home in Moatview Gardens after hearing the sirens of a garda chase in the area.
“It was a long sports bag, I didn’t see a mark on it. My first thought was that it was after being thrown out of a car and left there because the police were in the area. “
He continued: “There were three things that I thought might have been.
“I thought, maybe someone had forgotten their gym equipment; that they were stolen goods or drugs. And drugs were discovered not too long ago, so it wouldn’t have been too big of a leap.
“I picked him up and went into the house with him. The bag was heavy, that’s what really piqued my interest.
“I thought there is something important in this. We open it, myself and one other person in the house, after we take it to the front room.
“She thought it was animal meat, but when I looked at it closely, I said, ‘That’s not meat … it’s a human leg.’ And then I saw the arms and a pair of flip flops.
The man went on to say that he panicked when he realized what he had brought home.
“When I realized what we had in the house, I ran out with him and took him back to where he came from.
“By then all the neighbors came out because we were yelling ‘there are body parts in the bag. And one of the neighbors called the gardai, ”he said.
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