“Mark Deely, brother of the missing man, said that gardaí have since spoken to the identified man, and are now ‘totally happy’ there is ‘nothing sinister’ involved in the man’s recorded movements”

by Mysterious-Duty2415

11 comments

  2. Was he identified and spoken to a long time ago, or has his identity just been revealed?

  3. This is just one of those cases you always remember. Remember it like yesterday and all the missing posters on the poles for ages. I think he was just very unlucky and met the wrong person at the wrong time.

  4. After I saw that article I read some old threads from here about the case, and a common theme was this unidentified fella was the key to the whole thing, and if only he could be found, then it would all be solved. It is a shame to learn that that hope was unfounded.

  5. One theory is that he fell asleep in a
    Bin and was crushed by the truck in the morning during the rounds

    Edit: to the people downvoting me it’s a theory that was speculated online and by the guards , I didn’t just make it up

  7. It sounds like they identified the man walking behind him at what is now Milano on Haddington rd.

    I wonder how they managed it? You only see him from the back so short of the man coming forward I don’t see how all the cctv cleaning in the world would identify him

  8. Well that is very bittersweet, didn’t the gardai also say that the man dressed in black is actually a different person in at least two of the CCTV footage released? The whole thing is just too weird, anniversary only a couple of days away as well. His poor family

  9. Ok I may be misreading the article but it seems that the Gardai point to two men. They say they have identified the man “following” Trevor Deely. He has been ruled out. They have not identified the man speaking to Trevor Deely at the gate.

    It used to be an Internet joke that people believed low res images could be “enhanced” in a miraculous manner as per bad tv programs. It would be interesting to know how it was done in this case in 2023.

    This development actually adds another level of mystery for me. Assuming they mean the CCTV clip we all saw and they have improved it to the level of identifying someone from 20 years ago that surely implies it was someone relatively easily identified. As others said why didn’t they come forward earlier? But they are ruled out now so take it at face value.

    So if they have super enhanced cctv they have that of the second man. They don’t seem to have identified him. Why have they not released the enhanced image of him?

    As I said, more mystery for me.

  10. I’d want to know how exactly you go about it. Lad was loitering outside for ages in the early hours in the pissing rain and took off walking right after him. Like how could you prove it was sinister? Why did it take so long to find him? It was like 23 years ago what would the lad have to say? “Just walked home”? Very odd case

  11. Poor Trevor and his poor family. I think of him often. How did they identify the man from a 23 year old picture of the back of his head? How could anything be proved or disproved anything now unless they have more evidence?

    I think it’s most likely that he slipped into the canal and wasn’t found. There was also a tip off from someone in mountjoy regarding a vacant where a gun (or body?) was dumped which at the time sounded very promising but turned up nothing.

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