Kyran Durnin mother tracked down in England as message passed on to gardai

Gardai have been told that the mother of Kyran Durnin says she does not know what happened to her son.

Now living in East Anglia, Dayla Durnin is understood to have spoken to police in England. Police located Ms Durnin at the request of the Gardai and assured detectives that she was safe.

But she has not made any form of statement either formally or informally about the missing eight year-old's whereabouts to the authorities.

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Gardai are satisfied that the child is dead but have no idea exactly when he died. All they know so far is he was last seen alive at school in late May, early June, 2022.

They have not yet established how long he lived for after that and how and when he died.

A senior Garda source said: "This case is so complicated and could take at least six months if not longer to crack.

"The key people involved are not co-operating. We have received a large amount of information from the public and we are checking it bit by bit. We do not know how long Kyran lived after he left his school. The family were moving around different locations and we are trying to pinpoint their exact movements.

"People are saying he went missing but nobody who was around him will tell us on what date and how exactly it happened. The child may have died as a result of an accident, we do not know but we can't get any of these answers until we find the body."

A dig at the family's former home in Dundalk was inconclusive and detectives found no remains there. However they did establish that Kyran was not seen with his family at that location in the previous 12 months or so.

Detectives are now looking at searching and digging other locations including a number of houses in the Drogheda area, but no decision has been taken on whether to proceed or not.

The Garda source added: "We have some of our top guys working this case. We will eventually get to the truth and find his body. A small number of people know exactly what happened but are not co-operating as of yet."