RIP Paul Bunbury - Respectful posts only please

Carri

UPDATE 13/3/12: Paul's body was pulled from the Liffey today at Dublin Port. RIP Paul, you will will be in our thoughts.

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Hey everyone,

A DCU student is currently missing - Paul Bunbury (He usually wears a beard and long hair but here is a pic of him shaven just in case he has changed his appearance).



He hasn't been seen since Thursday at roughly 4pm in DCU.
He went to Spar on the Ballymun Rd, purchased something small.. - about 4:15pm.

UPDATE 13/2/12: It has been confirmed that Paul was spotted in the O2 (Point Depot) Village at around 6.20pm on the same day (Thurs 2nd Feb).

It's not like him to disappear so quickly, have his phone off and not be at a computer for more than 24 hours.

If anyone has any information on his whereabouts contact Whitehall Garda Station or one of his friends and let us know he's ok.

Nanaki

A few people are going towards DCU to look for Paul, there's still been no sign of him. The more eyes the better, it's not the smallest campus in the world.

If you're willing to help look around campus/the park/surrounding areas, everyone's meeting at 2pm in front of the Helix.

http://tinyurl.com/DCUcampus

The helix is the building marked in red on the right hand side.

Konata

Has anyone been able to get into his room?

Carri

Konata wrote: »

Has anyone been able to get into his room?

Was checked already.

CCTV is currently being looked at.

--LOS--

I'm not near DCU at the minute to help out but I can only wish you the best of luck in the search and hopefully he'll return safely.

Nanaki

We had a good look around, but nothing to be seen.

Doors were knocked on, and the establishments on ballymun road visited.

Thanks to anyone that helped and agreed to keep an eye out.

grodge

Nanaki wrote: »

We had a good look around, but nothing to be seen.

Doors were knocked on, and the establishments on ballymun road visited.

Thanks to anyone that helped and agreed to keep an eye out.

Was all of Hampsted Park searched??

Nanaki

grodge wrote: »

Was all of Hampsted Park searched??

As best as ~15 people can search it, yes.

Carri

There's due to be more things done tomorrow.. Keep and eye out here and we'll let you know asap if people want to help.

Konata

Thread stickied.

I'm sick at the moment but might be able to get out tomorrow. Please do post with any information regarding searches etc. Hoping for the best

Carri

Just a quick update..

Dublin bus CCTV has been wiped.. So that's now a dead end..
(Seems kinda pointless them even having CCTV if it can't be used when needed)

If anyone knows anyone who was in DCU that day and headed for a bus, could they please pass on Pauls description and pass on any information?

After going to Spar - his next move is unknown.

Cheers.

Stheno

Best wishes that Paul is found safe and well, he used work in my local shop iirc

Bigdeadlydave

Carri wrote: »

Just a quick update..

Dublin bus CCTV has been wiped.. So that's now a dead end..
(Seems kinda pointless them even having CCTV if it can't be used when needed)

If anyone knows anyone who was in DCU that day and headed for a bus, could they please pass on Pauls description and pass on any information?

After going to Spar - his next move is unknown.

Cheers.

Are you positive on this? Its my understanding that they dont wipe it so quickly.

Carri

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Are you positive on this? Its my understanding that they dont wipe it so quickly.

Positive.

It's automatic apparently and each depot keeps them seperate according to bus.

Bigdeadlydave

Carri wrote: »

Positive.

It's automatic apparently and each depot keeps them seperate according to bus.

Can I ask was the footage requested by the garda or just a member of the public?

I have relations in Dublin bus and there have been a number of cases where longer then this time period have passed by and the tape has been available.

Its a lot of tape that is being requested, Dublin bus people are notoriously lazy. The tape is stored on harddrives on each bus so a lot of legwork would be involved in gathering them up(each depo has 1 guy who does this AFAIK), if it was a member of the public asking, well, "its automatically wiped" its handy excuse. Especially if they dont ask for a specific bus.

You are talking about quite a few busses he could have got. Its feasible that one or two perhaps would have wiped when the harddrives reached capacity, but all of them?

Sounds suspect to me.

I know Paul in passing, he's a nice guy and every lead needs to be chased down.

If the Garda asked and no joy then thats all you can do.

Carri

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Can I ask was the footage requested by the garda or just a member of the public?

I have relations in Dublin bus and there have been a number of cases where longer then this time period have passed by and the tape has been available.

Its a lot of tape that is being requested, Dublin bus people are notoriously lazy. The tape is stored on harddrives on each bus so a lot of legwork would be involved in gathering them up(each depo has 1 guy who does this AFAIK), if it was a member of the public asking, well, "its automatically wiped" its handy excuse.

You are talking about quite a few busses he could have got. Its feasible that one or two perhaps would have wiped when the harddrives reached capacity, but all of them?

Sounds suspect to me.

I know Paul in passing, he's a nice guy and every lead needs to be chased down.

As far as I know - Both the Gardaí and the family have asked.

Bigdeadlydave

Carri wrote: »

As far as I know - Both the Gardaí and the family have asked.

Fair enough, I hope he turns up soon, it's getting quite worrying now.

Creadak

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Can I ask was the footage requested by the garda or just a member of the public?


Its a lot of tape that is being requested, Dublin bus people are notoriously lazy. The tape is stored on harddrives on each bus so a lot of legwork would be involved in gathering them up(each depo has 1 guy who does this AFAIK), if it was a member of the public asking, well, "its automatically wiped" its handy excuse. Especially if they dont ask for a specific bus.

The tapes were requested by family and gardaí.

The tapes asked for were for the five or six bus routes that stop outside the ballymun entrance on DCU as he had been spotted on CCTV in the Spar beside Matt Weldons.

And in anycase, it should have been as simple as emailing these depots and asking for an emergency backup of the footage from Thursday and Friday

zzziltoid

I don't mean to be smart or anything, but the programming society 'Red Brick' have been away in Belgium since Thursday. Is there any possibility that he might be a member of that group? (Maybe he just didn't make it very known he was leaving if this was the case).
All in all though, hope he turns up safe and well!

Creadak

zzziltoid wrote: »

I don't mean to be smart or anything, but the programming society 'Red Brick' have been away in Belgium since Thursday. Is there any possibility that he might be a member of that group? (Maybe he just didn't make it very known he was leaving if this was the case).
All in all though, hope he turns up safe and well!

Unfortunately not, his passport is still in his appartment so he's still in the country.

Ignore that I was wrong.

In any case, he still couldn't have left the country as his passport was actually out of date, so he may have actually taken it with him to use as ID to go drinking somewhere.

TonyStark

zzziltoid wrote: »

I don't mean to be smart or anything, but the programming society 'Red Brick' have been away in Belgium since Thursday. Is there any possibility that he might be a member of that group? (Maybe he just didn't make it very known he was leaving if this was the case).
All in all though, hope he turns up safe and well!

The networking society's website have him up as missing so I doubt it.

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/

Ken.

Is their anything set up on facebook about Paul, would it be ok to paste it here so we can share it. I don't live in Dublin but have a few friends from their that i could share it with. Their not on boards.

GLaDOS

People have been sharing this photo on facebook to raise awareness

spockety

Is it known what he bought in Spar?
Have the Redbrick guys had a scan of his last emails etc?

Creadak

spockety wrote: »

Is it known what he bought in Spar?
Have the Redbrick guys had a scan of his last emails etc?

As far as I know his account has been checked for indications of frame of mind, destination etc and there was nothing really out of the ordinary for him

evercloserunion

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Can I ask was the footage requested by the garda or just a member of the public?

I have relations in Dublin bus and there have been a number of cases where longer then this time period have passed by and the tape has been available.

Its a lot of tape that is being requested, Dublin bus people are notoriously lazy. The tape is stored on harddrives on each bus so a lot of legwork would be involved in gathering them up(each depo has 1 guy who does this AFAIK), if it was a member of the public asking, well, "its automatically wiped" its handy excuse. Especially if they dont ask for a specific bus.

You are talking about quite a few busses he could have got. Its feasible that one or two perhaps would have wiped when the harddrives reached capacity, but all of them?

Sounds suspect to me.

I know Paul in passing, he's a nice guy and every lead needs to be chased down.

If the Garda asked and no joy then thats all you can do.

You may actually be right about this. Several depots were tried, but none would really give straight answers--the only one that did give a straight answer, said they had already been wiped. The Gardaí are following up with other depots that would service relevant routes.

tnkrbell

Another suggestion maybe to contact and of the popular taxi companies and put out a message with them incase he got in a taxi. Really hope he's found safe and well and just taking some time to himself.

nkay1985

Just saw the announcement there. Hope the chap is found safe and well. I'm based in Waterford so there's not a lot I can practically do but if there's anything setup on Facebook, I'd be more than happy to share it in the hope that someone I know might see him or whatever.

Creadak

tnkrbell wrote: »

Another suggestion maybe to contact and of the popular taxi companies and put out a message with them incase he got in a taxi. Really hope he's found safe and well and just taking some time to himself.

That's actually a really good idea tnkrbell

[Jackass]

Maybe have the gaurds contact his bank and any service providers, such as boards, facebook, mobile phone company, email, internet banking etc. to see if there has been any activity on accounts or logins of any kind (if that's possible?).

Best of luck, hope he turns up safe.

Creadak

Thanks man, he's not been online at all though since Thursday, the admins of RedBrick confirmed this for us, which is insanely out of character, and he doesn't use facebook that often. Not sure about his bank records etc obviously, but his phone has definitely been off since Thursday.

Thanks for taking the time to post, if you can spread the word please do, the more people see it the more likely it is he'll see how loved he is and he'll just come home

G_R

I don't know the guy, but I live close enough to that area and I've friends in DCU so I've shared the pic on my Facebook, in the hope that someone I'm friends with has seen him.

If any more public searches are being organised I'd be more than happy to help out in anyway I can.

Hope he's found safe and well!

IsMiseLisa

I knew Paul a few years back and he was a sound lad. Fairly reserved but a funny fella all the same. Best of luck and I seriously hope he turns up soon!

Creadak

Thank you, if there's anything being organised, I'll be sure to post the details in the morning, for now we're playing by ear

Aoifums

I saw it on Facebook earlier. I don't know him personally, but he's a friend of a friend. Hope he's alright and he just needed to take a break

cooker3

Jaysus, hope Bunbun is found safe and sound asap. I let my brother know as my family still live in the area so they should hopefully spread the word.

IvySlayer

I'm near Swords this evening, if you are organising a search party and need an extra pair of hands, please post!

Hope he is found.

RichardAnd

I don't know Paul but my brother does and I'm a former DCU student myself. I hope he's found soon.

Etnies

Anyway to check his location before his phone was switched off? Presume thats more of a job for Gardai than friends, but good luck in finding him

Stev_o

Have all his friends in town been contacted?

Can you list the places and activities associated with town with him?

Noelly

Hey guys,

I'm a C&Her (Closed my account a few weeks ago, opened a new one when I heard about Paul) and I've been spreading the word around Twitter since yesterday.

A journalist from The Sun messaged me about him and said she'd help get some exposure that could help with him being found. I passed on his basic info and the picture, but if any of his friends/family want to get in contact with her, she says feel free to email her at:

nicola.bardon@the-sun.ie

Noel.

chrissym

Maybe you could ask the network about his call or text history and see when he last used his phone and who he talked to

jefreywithonef

Brief mention of him on the Irish Times website (at the end of an article on another teen that has gone missing) - surely they could have put up his photo too?

Ricky91t

Saw this photo on being shared on Facebook but didn't know it was Pygmalion. Hope he's found safe and soon!

andyman

Journal.ie article on Paul and other missing teen Neidín Kearns

Full description, including what he was wearing when he was last seen. Good work.

Noelly

The journalist from The Sun just got in contact and said she's been in contact with Dublin Bus and they're going to run through all the footage they can get their hands on now.. hopefully it'll find something!

tnkrbell

Theres also a bit about him on rte website along with the other teenager that's missing. Hopefully students return this evening to campus may have some information

Pigwidgeon

Good to see that the word is being spread well and is now making it into newspapers and the media (even if Thejournal.ie have his name wrong). Hopefully he turns up soon, safe and sound and sees the effort his friends an family are goin to to find him.

Please do try and keep us updated on here with any news.

evilmonkee

Any plans for tomorrow guys? Or just hoping he shows up in the labs tomorrow?

Pretty Polly

andyman wrote: »

Journal.ie article on Paul and other missing teen Neidín Kearns

Full description, including what he was wearing when he was last seen. Good work.

Neidin Kearns has been found. Hopefully Paul is also safe and well.

http://crime.ie/crimes/20120205/found-missing-person-neidin-kearns/#.Ty75bVx68U0

Mr.Crinklewood

Any chance of printing off some photos and placing them in the bus shelters around DCU?

Did he use the bus regularly? If so any chance that he could be using a leap card. I'm guessing these can be traced.