Dig for missing boy 'could take a week'

Hunt continues for child feared dead and buried on land

- MICHAEL O'TOOLE Crime and Defence Editor

GARDAI may have to wait up to a week before they establish if the little boy missing and feared dead was secretly buried on this patch of land.

As officers begin their third day of searching the stretch of wasteland in Donabate, north County Dublin, for the boy on Thursday, sources have told us the operation has some time to go.

“It is a big job and could take several days yet to complete!’ a source said.

Investigators have been given information that the child - who was last seen when he was aged three in 2021 - was buried at the site after he died.

They have been presented with two different versions of how he allegedly died. One is that he died at the hands of a man known to him. The second is that he died in his sleep and his parents panicked and secretly buried him rather than alerting authorities.