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Trevor Deely case - new witness

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭misterme123


    I'm curious about a couple of things.

    Someone posted that the scantily dressed woman was eventually identified, but I've never seen this in any news report. She doesn't seem to feature in recent Garda appeals though, despite initial appeals for her to come forward.

    Also, the enhanced footage that revealed MIB outside the bank for 30 minutes prior to Trevor's arrival; presumably Gardai had studied the footage but couldn't make anything out. (I don't see why the CCTV was quite so bad even in the year 2000, but that's another story.) Then 17 years later it was enhanced and revealed MIB's movements. I'm just curious about the technology. You can't increase the resolution of a picture. Can they combine data from the CCTV with information about the light sources to generate an image?

    Unfortunately for Trevor Deely's family, in the era of social media I don't think it's possible to keep a story in the public mind and control the discussion at the same time. I hope this thread can be kept open so people can discuss the case while being respectful to the family. Like a lot of people who remember it, this tragedy really struck a chord with me and I've always followed news reports about it in the hope that one day it would be resolved. It's every family's worst nightmare.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Also, the enhanced footage that revealed MIB outside the bank for 30 minutes prior to Trevor's arrival; presumably Gardai had studied the footage but couldn't make anything out. (I don't see why the CCTV was quite so bad even in the year 2000, but that's another story.) Then 17 years later it was enhanced and revealed MIB's movements. I'm just curious about the technology. You can't increase the resolution of a picture. Can they combine data from the CCTV with information about the light sources to generate an image?

    No idea how they enhanced it but just think about video recorded onto a magnetic VHS tape that already has been recorded over 1000 times and it would explain the quality.
    Security cameras may have been a requirement for insurance and not really ran in a way that intended to actually catch someone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Even back then, grainy flickery CCTV was used eg on Crimeline, to try and identify robbers from petrol stations, ATMs etc.

    It was videotape, so the quality was always fairly bad.

    A photographer tells me that you can increase resolution in a final image, by, for example:
    Superimposing multiple digital copies of the same sequence
    using editing software to flatten out irregularities and force up the contrast
    probably a few more technical tricks as well.
    There is specialist software for this kind of thing, used by security forces, among others.

    That's obviously what was done with the old CCTV footage - and it did reveal some new info.
    And it's my bet that there may be a little more unpublished: why would the Guards show their whole hand to the public?

    I'd love to have taken a closer look at the opposite side of the street while the MIB waits on Wilton Terrace: one can catch a glimpse of lights going on and off.
    And on Haddington Rd, there is the briefest hint of a car about to pull in, right at the top edge of screen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭JaimeLannister


    No theories to add but just a few observations on the cctv footage:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYxruBEmFE

    1. As Trevor is leaving his workplace at around 4.02.02 on the timestamp, someone walks by on the street outside from left to right. They seem to be wearing overalls/wet-gear. Were they ever identified? Presumably showed up on the cctv from gate1 carrying on walking in the same direction and so deemed irrelevant

    2. On the Milanos/Haddington Rd. footage - when Trevor leaves the frame, you can see his feet (or maybe reflections of his feet) in the puddles at the top of the screen. Around 4.14.45 in the top left puddle, and then at 4.14.55 looks like something moving to the right. It's possible that Trevor crossed the road at this point. A car drives by at 4.15.05. Was this car/driver ever identified or sought out?

    3. This PontaSix video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWX1owMUA6E) includes additional footage of MIB when Trevor's colleagues arrive at the gate (albeit they are blacked out). The final 15 secs or so of this video includes some grainy images of MIB and Trevor's colleague (?) looking in the gate. Surely if the same CCTV enhancement techniques were used on the footage where this image came from, as with the footage of Trevor arriving, the gardai would have a pretty clear image of the MIB? Which could be released to the public? It's possible they know who the MIB is and do not need any public assistance in identifying him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    No theories to add but just a few observations on the cctv footage:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYxruBEmFE

    1. As Trevor is leaving his workplace at around 4.02.02 on the timestamp, someone walks by on the street outside from left to right. They seem to be wearing overalls/wet-gear. Were they ever identified? Presumably showed up on the cctv from gate1 carrying on walking in the same direction and so deemed irrelevant

    2. On the Milanos/Haddington Rd. footage - when Trevor leaves the frame, you can see his feet (or maybe reflections of his feet) in the puddles at the top of the screen. Around 4.14.45 in the top left puddle, and then at 4.14.55 looks like something moving to the right. It's possible that Trevor crossed the road at this point. A car drives by at 4.15.05. Was this car/driver ever identified or sought out?

    3. This PontaSix video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWX1owMUA6E) includes additional footage of MIB when Trevor's colleagues arrive at the gate (albeit they are blacked out). The final 15 secs or so of this video includes some grainy images of MIB and Trevor's colleague (?) looking in the gate. Surely if the same CCTV enhancement techniques were used on the footage where this image came from, as with the footage of Trevor arriving, the gardai would have a pretty clear image of the MIB? Which could be released to the public? It's possible they know who the MIB is and do not need any public assistance in identifying him
    Where did the Ponta Six video come from. What is the "third man enter from right" at 1 minute in the Ponta Six. Did the MIB go and return when Trevor's friends were there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭KWAG2019


    The extra footage of people outside the gate has, of course, been addressed by now. TD’s workmates and the MIB. Workmates were identified years ago. The point about whether the MIB is already known/ probably known to police is well made. Extra footage may have been released in documentary.

    The puddle reflections were discussed in previous thread. I’m not sure if also here. If and it is a big if, they indicate TD crossing road then it MAY indicate that he was going to take the next right turn which brings him down two lanes toward his flat. Others in different threads have pointed out that there is no footage from the Israeli embassy (at the end of these lanes) that TD emerged from those lanes or from the US embassy nearer his flat. Whether the reflection in the puddles indicates that is speculation. Whether he took those lanes is speculation. We simply don’t know.

    If you look at the Haddington Road footage released by the police I don’t think it lasts long enough imho to see if the puddles reflect any activity after the man following TD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭Knine


    Was there any evidence he actually made it home to his flat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭DmanDmythDledge


    KWAG2019 wrote: »
    The extra footage of people outside the gate has, of course, been addressed by now. TD’s workmates and the MIB. Workmates were identified years ago. The point about whether the MIB is already known/ probably known to police is well made. Extra footage may have been released in documentary.

    The puddle reflections were discussed in previous thread. I’m not sure if also here. If and it is a big if, they indicate TD crossing road then it MAY indicate that he was going to take the next right turn which brings him down two lanes toward his flat. Others in different threads have pointed out that there is no footage from the Israeli embassy (at the end of these lanes) that TD emerged from those lanes or from the US embassy nearer his flat. Whether the reflection in the puddles indicates that is speculation. Whether he took those lanes is speculation. We simply don’t know.

    If you look at the Haddington Road footage released by the police I don’t think it lasts long enough imho to see if the puddles reflect any activity after the man following TD.
    I don't think it makes sense he would have used one of those lanes to return home rather than using Pembroke Road. I think he's either heading for Percy Place or the spar on Bath Avenue. Other posters have mentioned the 24 hour spar on Upper Baggot St but that's further out of the way than using the one on Bath Avenue and heading to Serpentine via Landsdowne Road.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    I don't think it makes sense he would have used one of those lanes to return home rather than using Pembroke Road. I think he's either heading for Percy Place or the spar on Bath Avenue. Other posters have mentioned the 24 hour spar on Upper Baggot St but that's further out of the way than using the one on Bath Avenue and heading to Serpentine via Landsdowne Road.

    No it’s not, spar is 30 seconds from him in the cctv


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Knine wrote: »
    Was there any evidence he actually made it home to his flat?

    No


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Knine wrote: »
    Was there any evidence he actually made it home to his flat?

    None AFAIK.

    Tbh I always wondered if he decided, given that his flatmates were away for the weekend, to pay for some 'female company' for the night. People do it all the time nowadays with the advent of Tinder and the like when they've been on the batter all night.

    Maybe he was haggling a price or a pro's boss didn't like the look of Trevor for whatever reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    No it’s not, spar is 30 seconds from him in the cctv

    Yes there was a Maxol station there, but the Spar people are referring to is Bath Av/South Lott's Rd.

    I personally thought he was on his way to Spar until it was pointed out Maxol was right next to him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    Yes there was a Maxol station there, but the Spar people are referring to is Bath Av/South Lott's Rd.

    I personally thought he was on his way to Spar until it was pointed out Maxol was right next to him.

    I was replying to the post where the poster mentioned that the 24hr spar on Baggot st was further away than the one on bath avenue

    I was just saying, that it was seconds away

    Always a possibility the spar on bath avenue stocked something that wasn’t in the Baggot st shop

    Maybe felt safer at that particular moment taking that route, more cars, people , residential lights etc

    Hard to know


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    None AFAIK.

    Tbh I always wondered if he decided, given that his flatmates were away for the weekend, to pay for some 'female company' for the night. People do it all the time nowadays with the advent of Tinder and the like when they've been on the batter all night.

    Maybe he was haggling a price or a pro's boss didn't like the look of Trevor for whatever reason.

    I've thought that as well, given the route home he took down Haddington Road which is just not the way to get to where he lived. I used to walk through that area home from town a number of years ago after a few pints and there is a temptation when you're a bit pissed and heading home alone to engage with the offers from the ladies of the night. It would explain how he came to end up in a house and be subject to an attempted mugging. From the CCTV it seems like MIB had some interaction with him prior to Trevor going to the office, maybe to set up the meet with a girl. Then the MIB was opportunistic as he saw Trevor worked in a bank so presumed he had access to money which then lead to an attempted mugging rather than just a transaction for sex.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    None AFAIK.

    Tbh I always wondered if he decided, given that his flatmates were away for the weekend, to pay for some 'female company' for the night. People do it all the time nowadays with the advent of Tinder and the like when they've been on the batter all night.

    Maybe he was haggling a price or a pro's boss didn't like the look of Trevor for whatever reason.

    Yes. A real possibility.

    The only way i can see him having a run in with a gang.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    The Haddington Road route is a way to get home, it's not the most direct route and not the route I would have gone but maybe it's the route he preferred for whether reason. I really don't think it's much longer distance wise, someone more technically adept than I could use Google maps to test distances and so on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    The Haddington Road route is a way to get home, it's not the most direct route and not the route I would have gone but maybe it's the route he preferred for whether reason. I really don't think it's much longer distance wise, someone more technically adept than I could use Google maps to test distances and so on.

    I have 17 mins versus 12 mins from Google maps measurement.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    I have 17 mins versus 12 mins from Google maps measurement.

    Ok thanks, so not much in it then. Plus he would have been disoriented after a few pints, that's just reality. If the family are offended by someone saying that I think they need to be realistic. So he may have set out in the wrong direction then figured out he could get home using an alternative route along the canal. Or as I already suggested maybe he just preferred the canal route.

    Btw, people saying he might have fallen into the Dodder, surely it is possible that he also fell into the canal, or has that been ruled out?


  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭TwoMonthsOff


    If he wanted a brass surely he would have picked one up by the time he got to the BOI on haddington road. Hes heading away from the action there


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  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    If he wanted a brass surely he would have picked one up by the time he got to the BOI on haddington road. Hes heading away from the action there

    I’m only replying to the question and not to what he did or didn’t do possibly

    Percy place, Haddington Road would have them hanging around too
    Across the bridge on Percy place to the peppicanister ( don’t know the correct spelling)

    Around that time and weather, wouldn’t be too many in general


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    surely it is possible that he also fell into the canal, or has that been ruled out?

    Canals don't flow as such. He'd have bobbed up or been seen. They're shallow bodies of water. The basin, granted, is larger in area but it would've turned up something by now.

    I seem to remember one of the top cops at the time saying he'd love to drain Grand Canal Basin and see what it exposes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭DmanDmythDledge


    I was replying to the post where the poster mentioned that the 24hr spar on Baggot st was further away than the one on bath avenue

    I was just saying, that it was seconds away

    Always a possibility the spar on bath avenue stocked something that wasn’t in the Baggot st shop

    Maybe felt safer at that particular moment taking that route, more cars, people , residential lights etc

    Hard to know
    I never said it was further away, my point was going to the one on Upper Baggot St (the one beside Larry Murphy's is the one I thought other posters referred to) on his way home would have added more to the journey than going to the one on Bath Avenue. Google maps confirms this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Canals don't flow as such. He'd have bobbed up or been seen. They're shallow bodies of water. The basin, granted, is larger in area but it would've turned up something by now.

    I seem to remember one of the top cops at the time saying he'd love to drain Grand Canal Basin and see what it exposes.

    Yes, understood, that makes sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Canals don't flow as such. He'd have bobbed up or been seen. They're shallow bodies of water. The basin, granted, is larger in area but it would've turned up something by now.

    I seem to remember one of the top cops at the time saying he'd love to drain Grand Canal Basin and see what it exposes.

    They can't drain the basin though which in itself means that it can't be fully ruled out. You'd imagine AGS divers would have found something at the time but limited visibility anything is possible. The Dodder was in a state of flood at the time but again you'd be assuming he made it that far.

    I think the theory of him engaging with on street criminals and their activity which turned wrong is more probable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    I never said it was further away, my point was going to the one on Upper Baggot St (the one beside Larry Murphy's is the one I thought other posters referred to) on his way home would have added more to the journey than going to the one on Bath Avenue. Google maps confirms this.

    You actually did say that.

    Directly behind him in the cctv footage is the petrol station , the spar on Baggot st is just metres away


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    I never said it was further away, my point was going to the one on Upper Baggot St (the one beside Larry Murphy's is the one I thought other posters referred to) on his way home would have added more to the journey than going to the one on Bath Avenue. Google maps confirms this.

    Ah ok. I think that one is on Lr Baggot St and was never 24 hour as far as I recall, the one we're thinking of is actually south of the canal, near the FAS building towards the Waterloo Rd junction with Baggot St. In any case he didn't go to either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭TwoMonthsOff


    I thought I remember reading the locks were closed on the canal at that time, I could be wrong.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    sugarman wrote: »
    it could have just been his preferred way to walk or perhaps not being from Dublin and new to the area, its just the way he got familiar with.

    Yes that's my own view. He had only moved to Dublin the year before IIRC.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    sugarman wrote: »
    Not sure where youre getting 17 and 12 mins from but from using the addresses

    Milanos/BOI "1-2 Haddington Rd, Dublin, D04 XN32"

    ...and his exact appartment complex address

    "Renoir, St James Court, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4"

    Google estimates it to be 24 mins and 26 mins walk.

    So only a 2 minute difference.

    You would never notice 2 minutes in a walk unless you timed yourself. This was in 2000 before you could easily check it on google maps.. it could have just been his preferred way to walk or perhaps not being from Dublin and new to the area, its just the way he got familiar with.

    A particularly fast walker might do it in 12 or 17, I suspect 24 or 26 is closer to average.

    But yes I agree as regards him not being from Dublin maybe it was just the route he was familar with, IIRC he had only moved to the Big Smoke the year.

    Not much in the distances either way.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭MrAbyss


    Not for a minute have I ever believed this was a casual - 'wrong time wrong place murder - that is just not what happens. Gangland killers are not impulsive types.

    Something else happened. Who knows.


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  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don’t know that part of the city well enough to comment too much but it certainly doesn’t look like the most direct route to his house. Now, he could have easily been going the shop or chipper or something. Or perhaps he just liked that way for whatever reason.

    We’ll never know for sure why he was going that way.

    I remember an article from years back saying Garda had a theory that he was going to meet a man and a woman.

    Chance encounter seems like their position now.

    It’s such a frustrating case. We have the timeline down a tee. Assuming he was going home, he couldn’t have been much more than 20 mins away.

    So something happened somewhere in that area between 4:14 and say 4:45.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    sugarman wrote: »
    Not sure where youre getting 17 and 12 mins from but from using the addresses

    Milanos/BOI "1-2 Haddington Rd, Dublin, D04 XN32"

    ...and his exact appartment complex address

    "Renoir, St James Court, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4"

    Google estimates it to be 24 mins and 26 mins walk.

    So only a 2 minute difference.

    You would never notice 2 minutes in a walk unless you timed yourself. This was in 2000 before you could easily check it on google maps.. it could have just been his preferred way to walk or perhaps not being from Dublin and new to the area, its just the way he got familiar with.

    I only measured to the Dodder bridge in Ballsbridge. Looking at his actual address, you're right, it is only a two minute difference and the fact he walked down Haddington Road wouldn't be weird at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    Its a good job the guards don't monitor this thread looking for breakthroughs!


  • Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭Alliance123


    TheW1zard wrote: »
    Its a good job the guards don't monitor this thread looking for breakthroughs!

    Well they've had 19 yrs of failure so far so cant be much worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    Well they've had 19 yrs of failure so far so cant be much worse.

    People are unsolving stuff here :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    TheW1zard wrote: »
    Its a good job the guards don't monitor this thread looking for breakthroughs!

    Well to be fair,ordinary people have solved murders and disappearances before,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭TheW1zard


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Well to be fair,ordinary people have solved murders and disappearances before,

    I agree


  • Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭Mwengwe


    sugarman wrote: »
    Not sure where youre getting 17 and 12 mins from but from using the addresses

    Milanos/BOI "1-2 Haddington Rd, Dublin, D04 XN32"

    ...and his exact appartment complex address

    "Renoir, St James Court, Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4"

    Google estimates it to be 24 mins and 26 mins walk.

    So only a 2 minute difference.

    You would never notice 2 minutes in a walk unless you timed yourself. This was in 2000 before you could easily check it on google maps.. it could have just been his preferred way to walk or perhaps not being from Dublin and new to the area, its just the way he got familiar with.

    It's got to be the most boring, non-significant thing that people keep bringing up in this thread.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3 Souf


    He’s not going directly home. Leaving aside that your going up a quieter more complicated route, a couple of minutes difference isn’t nothing. Just walk beside someone and stop, letting them off for 3min.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭DmanDmythDledge


    You actually did say that.

    Directly behind him in the cctv footage is the petrol station , the spar on Baggot st is just metres away
    I said "further out of the way", i.e. getting home, not further away.

    Irrelevant anyway as I was thinking of a different Spar


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    None AFAIK.

    Tbh I always wondered if he decided, given that his flatmates were away for the weekend, to pay for some 'female company' for the night. People do it all the time nowadays with the advent of Tinder and the like when they've been on the batter all night.

    Maybe he was haggling a price or a pro's boss didn't like the look of Trevor for whatever reason.
    Kind of unfounded idle speculation that got the old thread shut down.
    Can you imagine the family reading this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,338 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    sugarman wrote: »
    Theres strong evidence to suggest the opposite... I mean, if somebody was going to commit suicide by jumping into a river, the last thing they'd care about was to go out of their way to grab an umbrella to keep dry on the way! ...or to check their work emails / make notes for the next following day, or to call a friend back and leave a voicemails saying i'll see you tomorrow!

    My father (rural shopkeeper) was the last person to talk a guy who committed suicide, a local man, who I knew myself going up.

    He called into the shop, had a chat, bought the usual milk bread and paper, discussed going to an upcoming match and off he went on his bike. Nothing unusual. He cycled about half a mile and hung himself underneath a bridge. Groceries were just left there, so they knew to talk to my father.

    Nobody knows what goes through a person's mind but suicides don't need to be planned out. That man made up his mind somewhere on the half a mile cycle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,003 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    PARlance wrote: »
    My father (rural shopkeeper) was the last person to talk a guy who committed suicide, a local man, who I knew myself going up.

    He called into the shop, had a chat, bought the usual milk bread and paper, discussed going to an upcoming match and off he went on his bike. Nothing unusual. He cycled about half a mile and hung himself underneath a bridge. Groceries were just left there, so they knew to talk to my father.

    Nobody knows what goes through a person's mind but suicides don't need to be planned out. That man made up his mind somewhere on the half a mile cycle.

    That is just so sad. But there is not much we can do really when they make the decision to go. Unless someone is close by who may be able to rescue them.

    Thanks for sharing that experience.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    There is simply no evidence whatever that Trevor committed suicide. Literally none. While some of the theories about Trevor being subject to some kind of pressure from criminals due to his job are fanciful, they are less fanciful that the suicide theory, as far as I can see.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    There is simply no evidence whatever that Trevor committed suicide. Literally none. While some of the theories about Trevor being subject to some kind of pressure from criminals due to his job are fanciful, they are less fanciful that the suicide theory, as far as I can see.

    Theres no evidence to suggest a crime was committed either.

    There is no evidence to support any theory. The witnesses seem to be really unreliable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    I only measured to the Dodder bridge in Ballsbridge. Looking at his actual address, you're right, it is only a two minute difference and the fact he walked down Haddington Road wouldn't be weird at all.

    Agreed, and given that St James Court is at the Sandymount end of Serpentine rather than the RDS/Ballsbridge end it's possible he knew a shortcut home across the river. Which particularly on that night makes it certainly plausible that he fell into the Dodder.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Theres no evidence to suggest a crime was committed either.

    There is no evidence to support any theory. The witnesses seem to be really unreliable.

    That's largely true. I don't agree with your statement about the witnesses being unreliable, they have given AGS all their recollections, bear in mind most of them would have been under the influence of alcohol at the night in question.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭oneilla


    Where did the Ponta Six video come from. What is the "third man enter from right" at 1 minute in the Ponta Six. Did the MIB go and return when Trevor's friends were there?

    The Ponta Six videos wre made by filmmakers David Lester Mooney and Mark Kilbride. They were posted on broadsheet.ie in 2017 shortly after the enhanced footage was released. They spotted an inaccuracy in the Donal MacIntyre documentary where the voice over describes Trevor having encountered the mystery man in black when he leaves while on screen is a still of Trevor's colleague at the gate and the mystery man is still there. This was all cleared up when the Guards confirmed that two colleagues from the party also went back to the office to retrieve a bag.


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    Coconut12 wrote: »

    Thanks for article. It's worth putting headline up when you're posting links as otherwise people might not bother reading it.
    How drowning and suicide were dismissed as possible explanations


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