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\nMartin Kelly was last seen on 1 January 2006<\/p>\n
The PSNI has renewed calls for information on the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of a man from Belfast.<\/p>\n
Martin Kelly was last seen on New Year’s Day in 2006 when he was in his early 20s.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Stephen Harvey said Mr Kelly’s disappearance “has had a profound impact on his family”.<\/p>\n
“Martin, who worked as a plumber and a part-time bar man in the Priory Inn at Holywood, worked on New Year’s Eve 2005 and then went on to two house parties with friends,” he said.<\/p>\n
“On New Year’s Day, he and his friends went to Pat’s Bar in Garmoyle Street to watch a football match.<\/p>\n
“The friends left and Martin remained in the bar talking to other customers. He left at about 7.10pm and hasn’t been seen since.<\/p>\n
\nMartin Kelly was last seen on 1 January 2006<\/p>\n
“Martin, who is about 6ft 1in tall and of slim build with short dark hair, was wearing a black ‘Guinness’ T-shirt and blue jeans,” DI Harvey added.<\/p>\n
“Police investigating Martin’s disappearance carried out searches on land and on the water and deployed the diving team and air support team in these searches.<\/p>\n
“We have also undertaken extensive inquiries but despite conducting a wide range of interviews and reviewing all available CCTV relating to the incident, Martin has not been located.<\/p>\n
“We remain committed and determined to discovering what happened to Martin and detectives will continue to follow up all new lines of inquiry and any new information,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PSNI has renewed calls for information on the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of a man from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-261479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115819405879563159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}