Chief Superintendent Alan McGovern speaking to the media outside Dundalk Garda Station giving an update in the murder investigation of Kyran Durnin(Image: PA)

Kyran Durnin investigation: Woman arrested on suspicion of murder released without charge

by · Irish Mirror

Gardaí investigating the disappearance and murder of Kyran Durnin (8) have released a woman who was arrested yesterday without charge.

Gardai said the investigation is ongoing. A spokesperson said: "An Garda Síochána continues to appeal to any person with any information, on the disappearance and murder of Kyran Durnin, no matter how insignificant it may seem, to contact the Garda Investigation Team at Drogheda Garda Station on 041 987 4200, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or speak with any member of An Garda Síochána.

The woman was arrested yesterday and detained under Section 4 Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda Station in the east of the country

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Kyran was reported missing on August 30 last and since then Gardai have stated that they believe he has not been seen alive since the end of the summer school term in May/June 2022.

Gardai say that the murder investigation into Kyran's disappearance is very much active and ongoing. They did a search and dig at the former family rented home in Dundalk but did not discover anything of significance.

Detectives say they will be searching and digging at other locations most likely in the Drogheda area in due course. A grandmother of the young boy has been reportedly recorded on tape saying she last saw the youngster alive on Wednesday, August 28 last.

(Image: PA)
(Image: PA)

Rhonda Tyson said he stayed in her house in Drogheda, Co Louth with his mother, her daughter Dayla, and had been sleeping on the couch. But the next morning when she woke up, both mother and the child were gone. Dayla left a note for her on the table saying she needed to get away for a few days.

Her account of seeing Kyran recently alive is totally at odds with the Garda view that he has been dead for the last two years. The recorded interview was obtained by the investigative BBC Spotlight team for their programme on the case The Lost Boy which will be screened tonight, Tuesday December 10.

The interview with the granny was conducted by Andy Spearman, the editor of the Drogheda Life news website and published between the time the mother and child were reported missing and when Gardai launched a full-scale murder investigation for Kyran in early October.

Mr Spearman lived beside Ms Tyson on the same street in Drogheda and gives an account of how he got the interview and the tape recording, which Spotlight features. In the recorded interview, Rhonda Tyson appeals to her daughter Dayla and Kyran to return home.

She said: "Please, please pick up the phone and tell us that you and Kyran are OK." The mother, Dayla, was subsequently located in East Anglia in England where she has been staying with friends but there has been no sign of the young lad.

It is understood the mother told Suffolk Police she had no idea where her son was. The tape has now been handed over to the Gardai as part of their investigation.

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