Developer missing for 8 months found starving on roadside

thomasm · 31-01-2013 08:46PM

weldoninhio wrote: »

The thing i found extremely strange when i read the story was that he was reported missing 8 months ago, but there was never an appeal made to find him. Seems kinda odd.

Lots go missing every year, mayby he was not considered 'vulnerable' and no appeal was issued. Just speculating though

johnnycarrick · 31-01-2013 09:02PM

Looking at where he was found, I would say it was an ex-Provo tiger kidnapping (possibly gone wrong). They would have held him until sufficient funds were secured for his release. That would explain his apparent Amnesia about the last 8 months. The ransom was paid, and he was released with a mobile phone so he could be found.

Smidge · 31-01-2013 09:14PM

Missing for 8 months.
Emaciated.
No clothes or shoes.
No money.

8 months is a long time to be knocking around especially having come through a very cold period recently, with no clothes and no shoes.
If he was living rough surely someone, somewhere saw him in this condition?
Ireland's not THAT big a place.
He must have eaten something over the last 8 months, so again someone must have seen him somewhere given how dishevelled he must have looked he would have been remarkable.

Torch.
Mobile phone.

For these to be the only belongings found with him is bizarre.
Both battery powered.
If he has been living rough for 8 months both would be out of power long ago so why would he be carrying them around with him.

VERY odd to say the least and would love to know the juicies on this:D

housetypeb · 31-01-2013 09:36PM

If he was being held for ransom, it could explain him being released in the middle of the night in a remote area and being given a torch to see by and a phone to call his family.
I'm sure all will be explained eventually.

marvsins · 31-01-2013 10:11PM

Anyone know how long it would take for life assurance policy to pay out, if he was assumed dead?

Pottler · 31-01-2013 10:21PM

I think it was the Provisional-ARA. They're like the regular NAMA, but they don't feck about with the niceities..

GhostInTheRuins · 31-01-2013 10:23PM

With just the facts that we know right now it's a mad story. It's like an episode of the xfiles or something. I wonder what will come of it.

Celly Smunt · 31-01-2013 10:25PM

All he can remember is walking,with lights coming towards him.Probably something to do with his cancer.

marketty · 31-01-2013 10:27PM

I heard another mad story durin the week. This young one took €350,000 out of ATMs over a year and has no recollection of how she spent it.

Aliens IMHO

betterfly · 31-01-2013 10:37PM

I could write a book on KMM, rather than a post. Buy the newspapers tomorrow as there is alot more to this story than is being reported right now.

tayto lover · 31-01-2013 10:39PM

marketty wrote: »

I heard another mad story durin the week. This young one took €350,000 out of ATMs over a year and has no recollection of how she spent it.

Aliens IMHO

Ah they didn't happen to mention how she managed to take it, did they?;)

Liamario · 31-01-2013 10:42PM

He must recall something in fairness. He doesn't have amnesia and I doubt the scum who had him kept him comatose or something; I mean what would be the point in doing that.

Auldloon · 31-01-2013 11:00PM

betterfly wrote: »

I could write a book on KMM, rather than a post. Buy the newspapers tomorrow as there is alot more to this story than is being reported right now.

Intrigued!! Go on give us a bone??

randy hickey · 31-01-2013 11:03PM

Headline should read;

Man In Miracle Rescue From Irish Wilderness.

TheUsual · 31-01-2013 11:16PM

I did read comments by other big developer Bernard McNamarra I think it was ?
He said some Irish people were left in a bad way mentally from the property boom. He said that there was some Irishman walking around the South of France talking to himself.

Now treating the man as a human first, maybe it is him and he doesn't remember a thing.

tayto lover · 31-01-2013 11:23PM

P_1 wrote: »

Sounds like he had some sort of nervous breakdown.

Could easily happen especially if he got ruined financially.

I once had a breakdown in Leitrim and it took 8 months for another car to pass.

tenton · 31-01-2013 11:41PM

johnnycarrick wrote: »

Looking at where he was found, I would say it was an ex-Provo tiger kidnapping (possibly gone wrong). They would have held him until sufficient funds were secured for his release. That would explain his apparent Amnesia about the last 8 months.

Right enough, there was a provo kidnapping in the eighties and the captive was held in Leitrim. A Guard and / or Irish soldier was killed in his rescue.

Thing is, why kidnap a property developed in 2012? They have no money now. Unless someone paid a deposit and it all went wrong...?
Very intriguing story. He must have ate something or had some shelter over the past 8 months. Someone knows something.

johnnycarrick · 31-01-2013 11:51PM

tenton wrote: »

Right enough, there was a provo kidnapping in the eighties and the captive was held in Leitrim. A Guard and / or Irish soldier was killed in his rescue.

Thing is, why kidnap a property developed in 2012? They have no money now. Unless someone paid a deposit and it all went wrong...?
Very intriguing story. He must have ate something or had some shelter over the past 8 months. Someone knows something.

There are a lot of retired ex-Provo's around Ballinamore. Not all of them received a pension from the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast. That has left them effectively out of work since The Troubles ended, with no pension from the RA.
Tiger kidnappings are their speciality. A Property Developer is the ideal soft target, low security with links to people with large sums of ransom cash.
No money in 2012? Don't you believe it. Just look at Sean Quinn's daughter withdrawing 340,000 Euro from an ATM in Blanchardstown at 1000 per day! Plenty of Property Developers have money stashed from the boom years to tide them over. And that's what makes them a target for the ex-Provo's.

ITS_A_BADGER · 31-01-2013 11:54PM

i think its a little early to jump to conclusions like kidnapping, ransoms and terrorists

Russian mafia ???

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 01:18AM

According to The Star he had other business interests apart from property

The Star understands that as well as fronting KMM International Properties, Mr McGeever is also the registered owner of KMM Oilplus and KMM Aviation Worldwide....And in April 2012 he created KMM Aviation Worldwide, which, according to its website, specialises in the sale of new and used Airbus and Boeing passenger planes.

The website offers aircraft priced between US$45m and US$95m.

The Leitrim Observer has the following details

....had a serious injury to his forehead......

Mr McGeever was wearing socks and had a plastic bag covering his clothes. He had no money on him but had a mobile phone and a torch in his possession.

Was the plastic bag covering his clothes to stop forensic evidence from transferring?:pac:

Very strange case indeed

jd · 01-02-2013 01:21AM

I'm not sure how to input this into my "duck test" analyser,

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 01:30AM

Tommorows independent has the story that he had an insult carved in his forehead and was abducted at gunpoint 8 months ago by 3 armed, masked men from the garden of his home. They were looking for a ransom but he didn't know whether it had been paid or not. The gang gave him the mobile phone when they released him and told him to keep it on him at all times.

:eek:

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

i think its a little early to jump to conclusions like kidnapping, ransoms and terrorists

Russian mafia ???

You win the daily Mail Award

Headline in the Irish Daily Mail

RUSSIAN MAFIA KIDNAPPED AND TORTURED ME

bluecode · 01-02-2013 01:34AM

As far as I know things aren't that bad in Dubai but frankly Leitrim is a bit of a hell hole. No wonder he's in trouble. Frankly any developer worth his salt will have hidden money in Russia or whatever. Where did he go wrong.

Must have forgotten his Russian bank pin number. That has to be bad. Luckily those dim witted Quinn kids rememberered theirs even if they don't know how they spent it. Typical rich kids, stuffed it up their nose probably or spent it in Brown Thomas.:D

2rkehij30qtza5 · 01-02-2013 01:37AM

Boombastic wrote: »

Tommorows independent has the story that he had an insult carved in his forehead

The word 'thief' was carved into his forehead.

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 01:51AM

Royalty Plump Merry-go-round wrote: »

The word 'thief' was carved into his forehead.

Yep and owed money to the IRA aswell as the Russians. He was kept in a container for the past few months.

The sun has the following vital additional information:D

“He said at the garda station he hadn’t eaten for God knows how long. I offered to pop out for chips and he said he’d only eat them with curry.”..........................................................

ricero · 01-02-2013 01:56AM

Is it wrong that I found this funny

ordinary_girl · 01-02-2013 01:58AM

Definitely sounds like he has some kind of mental illness, and it does sound like he may have had a mental breakdown. Also, Ireland's not Oz, our wilderness isn't real wilderness in that if you were walking around in the mountains or anywhere remote for 8 months you would definitely come across a town or somewhere that's populated at some point. Someone would see you. It's all very strange.

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 02:02AM

ordinary_girl wrote: »

Definitely sounds like he has some kind of mental illness, and it does sound like he may have had a mental breakdown. Also, Ireland's not Oz, our wilderness isn't real wilderness in that if you were walking around in the mountains or anywhere remote for 8 months you would definitely come across a town or somewhere that's populated at some point. Someone would see you. It's all very strange.

Mental Illness

Do you reckon he carved the word 'Thief' in to his own forehead?

he couldn't have done, he had no mirror on him:)

thomasm · 01-02-2013 08:01AM

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/developer-had-insult-carved-into-forehead-by-kidnapper-3371964.html

Arawn · 01-02-2013 08:05AM

probably a scam! oh no I lost weight, I could make myself look like **** in two week if needed

Developer missing for 8 months found starving on roadside

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