Beechwoodspark wrote: » Bit strange this is reported all of a sudden coinciding around the time of year of his disappearance. I’d be cautious on this.
tdf7187 wrote: » True but personally I don't discount what the new witness is saying as the Lr Baggot Street area late at night was quite dodgy back then. The Spar used to be 24 hour or close to it and you'd get strange characters hanging around.
Beechwoodspark wrote: » Do you mean the spar that is still on the go there? Not a native to dublin but would’ve thought that part of baggot st was fairly upmarket. Maybe different back then?
tdf7187 wrote: » Yes, that Spar used to be open much later. I don't know if it was 24 hour but I remember it being open very late, after even the nightclubs had closed. Baggot Street was and is upmarket, but as I say late at night it had a dodgy vibe. I remember going into the Abrekebabra that used to be there a few doors from the Spar with a mate after a night of boozing some time around 1996 or 1997 and there were four prostitutes in there shooting the breeze. They were not the type of prostitute that you'd take home to your mother, put it that way.
tdf7187 wrote: » They were not the type of prostitute that you'd take home to your mother, put it that way.
Berserker5 wrote: » They'd likely have information if it was him, wasn't a BIL a witness in the case
Stevieluvsye wrote: » My understanding is they have the info but lack of evidence.
Berserker5 wrote: » Ya he's in jail Same fella wouldn't think considering the circumstances of that girls abduction murder and disposal
Beechwoodspark wrote: » A red light district at night?
TwoMonthsOff wrote: » Down around the maxol garage on mespil road there was always dodgy people hanging around.
Boggles wrote: » You should go to the guards with that info.
farmchoice wrote: » ya i lived in and around there in 98/99 and it was dodgy as hell at night. along the canal was a red light district and the late night shops always had an eclectic mix of pros, pimps, dealers, junkies,, doormen, taxi drivers etc hanging around them, i know because i worked in one. a prostitute was murdered between Baggot st bridge and Mount st bridge in the summer of 98. you were liable to run in to some dodgy dodgy types anywhere along the canal from mount St bridge to Rathmines back then and not just drunks or gougers, proper dangerous men, the only thing was they rarely bothered the average Joe soap if he/she wasn't bothering them or their business, but it certainty would not have taken much to have pissed one of them off, like happening to look at them the wrong way.
begbysback wrote: » There’s a type of prostitute you would take home to your mother?
TwoMonthsOff wrote: » Maybe the non junkie type, but you wont find any of them around that area.
Raconteuse wrote: » At the time also, the "westies" were in the news a bit. The area had such a buoyant "night time economy" due to bankers seeking out coke and hookers I suppose?
Stevieluvsye wrote: » They were Blanch
Dodge wrote: » What type of hookers do you normally bring home to you mother?
