Noah Donohoe

Can't stop thinking about this 14 year old wee boy. Missing in Belfast since Sunday. Story is he cycled from his house in South Belfast up to North Belfast (where he goes to school), a witness has said they saw him fall off the bike and hit his head. The next thing is he has got rid of his clothes and is cycling naked near Seaview on the Shore Road. Last spotted in a heavily built up area around 6pm on a bright Sunday evening. Nobody has any idea where he could be and hundreds from accross both communities have scoured the area. PSNI and S&R teams leading it at the minute.



The PSNI has appealed to the public to search their homes, gardens and outbuildings for signs of missing schoolboy Noah Donohoe.

Superintendent Muir Clark thanked the public for their help in a widespread search as thousands of volunteers continued to hunt for the Year 10 pupil who has been missing from his home in since Sunday.

Officers believe Noah Donohoe may have fallen from his bicycle and sustained an injury causing him to remove his clothing before he was last seen in areas close to the Shore Road.

A number of items belonging to the teenager, including his bicycle and some clothing, have been found.

Superintendent Clark asked people to now search their own properties in north Belfast. "I really need people to check their own property, we are looking for a young, slim 14-year-old boy," he said, speaking from Musgrave Police Station where Noah's mother Fiona and aunts Niamh and Shona were also present.

"Check your gardens, sheds and outbuildings for any sign of Noah. If you have a car or a caravan that hasn't been used for some time which is siting in your driveway, please check it to see if Noah is there."

"If anyone has clothing which has gone missing from your washing line over the past few days, you need to call us."

Superintendent Clark made a direct appeal to Noah to call them if he is able to do so, reassuring him he was not in any trouble. He asked Noah's friends to contact the police with any information, now matter how small.

"If any of Noah's friends known anything that might help us, you are not in any trouble, it's just to help us find him. If you are a landlord or you own a vacant property ion this area, please check your property for sign of Noah," he said.

It comes after Noah's devastated mother Fiona pleaded for “just one person” to come forward with information that could lead to her son’s safe return home.

Fiona Donohoe has issued a fervent appeal for her 14-year-old son, an only child and St Malachy's pupil, on the third day after his disappearance.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/police-appeal-for-public-to-search-homes-gardens-and-unused-vehicles-for-missing-noah-donohoe-39312438.html

Be right back wrote: »

It's desperate. Poor lad. Hope he turns up safe soon.

What I can't get my head around is someone seeing a child, naked at 6pm in a built up area then nothing.

I fear the worst but also hopeful that if he was that confused that he discarded his clothes that he could be hiding somewhere.

Very odd case.

I’m hoping against hope he is found alive and well

PSNI have said that he discarded all of his clothes as was seen cycling naked but as yet haven't recovered his coat, jogging bottoms and his backpack containing a laptop.

Wonder has someone lifted this gear thinking happy days to themselves and are now *****ing themselves coming forward with them.

Birneybau wrote: »

Not that odd. The poor kid obviously suffered a head injury.

Surely it's odd that no one intervened when they saw a 14 year old cycling with no clothes on?

Bystander effect possibly?

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Surely it's odd that no one intervened when they saw a 14 year old cycling with no clothes on?

Bystander effect possibly?

To be honest, if I saw a young lad cycle past me naked, Id probably think its very strange but wouldnt do anything about it.

The_Fitz wrote: »

Search entering it's 6th day this morning.

It is not looking good for the lad, God help the family this is such a heartbreaking story.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

just heard that they have found his backpack

And his laptop

It's looking like an abduction to me.

irishproduce wrote: »

Maybe I am not following correctly but the news reports are just confusing.
Is it suspected he has been abducted or that he is confused from a head trauma and wandered off somewhere?

Sounds like the latter as they were asking people to check their sheds etc in case he wandered in somewhere

Bizarre.

Was he seen walking naked in the street? Or did I mishear the news report from yesterday?

Real Life wrote: »

To be honest, if I saw a young lad cycle past me naked, Id probably think its very strange but wouldnt do anything about it.

Maybe, but if I saw someone fall off their bike with such force to sustain a serious head injury, I'd most definitely stop and help him. I would have thought most people would.

Poor guy, I really hope he's found safe and well, but you must think it's not looking likely at this stage

Terrible news. Very sad story.

That's as tragic a story as I've heard in a long time.

RIP Noah.

RIP Noah, so sad to hear this news

Questions for the psni to answer here. Found in same area as he was reported missing.

Terrible for the family.

This is just heartbreaking. I hate to think that we have become a society that sees a kid cycling naked on a bike and no one stops them to check on their welfare.

antgal23 wrote: »

Catch yourselves on

Fell off his bike, youse having a laugh

Who falls off his bike and goes missing?

Kicked off his bike, kicked into ditch, hid by alocal gang

Unfortunately that sounds a lot more realistic.

Class MayDresser wrote: »

9. 9 is all he was. Out on his bike for a cycle. Makes my chest heavy, RIP Noah.

He was 14, still no age, horrible news RIP.

So what happened??
Did he just fall and become disoriented and it took this long to find his body??