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The discovery of a child’s skeletal remains, believed to belong to three-year-old Daniel Aruebose, has given investigators a ‘glimmer of hope’ that those involved in the murder of schoolboy Kyran Durnin might start to cooperate fully with investigators.
Since Kyran, who would have turned nine in May, was reported missing in August 2024 and the investigation into his disappearance upgraded to a murder investigation two months later, investigators have been met with silence and a lack of meaningful cooperation from individuals believed to have knowledge of the crime.
Gardai continue to liaise with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in respect of the investigation as Kyran’s disappearance only came to light when staff at Tusla became suspicious when a child purported to be Kyran attended a meeting with them in early August 2024. Gardai now believe that child was a decoy.
Despite extensive and ongoing enquiries investigators based at Drogheda Garda Station have been unable to locate schoolboy Kyran, who was six years old when he was last seen alive in June 2022, or determine what has happened to him.
Kyran’s disappearance and whereabouts continues to remain a mystery, shocking the nation.
Similarly Daniel’s disappearance and the subsequent discovery of a child’s skeletal remains in a shallow grave on wasteland, believed to be Daniel’s, has equally shocked the nation.
Those suspected of being involved in Kyran’s disappearance and suspected murder continue to remain silent.
Now sources say that detectives believe they have now been given a ‘glimmer of hope’ that the breakthrough in the recovery of Daniel Aruebose’s remains may prove pivotal in breaking down the wall of silence in relation to Kyran’s disappearance and murder.
“It is hoped that the finding of Daniel’s remains might stir consciences and prompt those withholding information to finally step forward, enabling authorities to piece together the full chain of events that led to Kyran’s death,” sources told us.
Both Kyran’s mam Dayla and maternal grandmother Rhona Byrne-Tyson declined to comment about Kyran and the murder investigation when we approached them separately in December last year and earlier this year, given the huge public interest and concern over how Kyran slipped through the net.
We approached Dayla in Ipswich in the UK while she was on her way to a Premier League match but she declined to answer our questions but told us, “I’d appreciate it if you could go away from me, thank you.” Similarly, when we approached Rhonda outside her home in Drogheda earlier this year, she told us ‘Go Away.’
Daniel Aruebose was named on Wednesday as the tragic child whose remains gardai were digging for over a near three-week period on marshy wastelands on the Portrane Road in Donabate, north County Dublin.
The three-year-old boy, who would be seven now, went missing over four years ago in Donabate. His disappearance only came to light at the end of August during a random spot check by officers from the Department of Social Protection who then alerted Tusla.
Daniel’s parents have been cooperating with investigators and continue to maintain he passed away in his sleep from natural causes, that they discovered him ‘ice cold’ and dead in his bed, that they panicked and secretly buried him by digging a shallow grave with their hands in an area his mother pointed out to investigators early on in the investigation.
Last week, gardai again warned that anyone withholding information about Kyran’s disappearance is committing a criminal offence.
And it is understood that further searches are likely to take place as part of the investigation into Kyran’s murder and further arrests may be made.
At the end of August, gardai issued an updated statement in relation to the investigation into Kyran’s murder confirming the investigation is ongoing and the examination of items seized remains ongoing.
And to date there have been in excess of 570 separate investigative actions taken as well as two persons – a woman and a man- have to date been arrested on suspicion of murder as well as three residences and adjoining lands have been searched for Kyran’s remains.
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