Tragic Elizabeth's mum pleads for info on vanished kids

THE MUM of missing Elizabeth Clarke - who is suspected of being murdered and secretly buried - has urged those with information about the boy who disappeared in Co Dublin to come forward.

- BY NICOLA DONNELLY

Noeleen Bieninda, who lives in Portrane, just kilometres from where the little boy lived in Donabate, said when she heard the distressing news last week she was in “shock and disbelief”.

The little boy - who would be seven years old now - was just over three when he was last seen alive in 2021.

He is presumed dead and secretly buried and his disappearance is at the centre of a major Garda search on lands along the Portrane Road in north Co Dublin.

The child's mother claims she and the child's father secretly buried him after they panicked and discovered him dead in his bed.

The child's mother - who was born in Africa but has lived in Ireland since she was a child - continues to maintain the child passed away in his sleep from natural causes.