Daniel's mum carried out her own search... to check on the 'penalty' for a secret burial

DATA records for a phone belonging to Daniel Aruebose's mother show searches for "penalties for secretly burying a child" and "missing child", we can reveal.

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However, sources have emphasised there were no searches on the device relating to “murder”.

Details of the online activity have emerged as gardai await DNA results to confirm the remains found in marshy wasteland in Donabate, north Dublin, are those of Daniel.

A postmortem has taken place but has proved inconclusive.

Further tests will now be needed in order to try and determine a cause of death.

The phone findings are understood to have been reviewed as part of the wider circumstances surrounding Daniel's disappearance.

Sources said: “While the searches provide a glimpse into what may have been on the mind of Daniel's mam at the time, they do not in themselves establish wrongdoing.”

So far no arrests have been made but gardai have identified a number of people of interest they wish to formally interview.

Daniel, who was three years of age, was last seen four years ago.

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