Keane Mulready-Woods

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Mother of Keane Mulready-Woods speaks of son's 'violent and ... (BreakingNews.ie)

The Special Criminal Court heard a victim impact statement from Elizabeth Woods on Monday.

He said Cruise did not know what was going to happen when he dropped Crosby and Keane off in Rathmullan Park, and he was not involved at the "top level". Ms Woods also complained that some of the media reporting relating to her son was "disturbing and deeply upsetting". Ms Woods said she feels vulnerable in her home and every day has to walk past the house where her son died. Prior to that he was convicted of public order matters and a burglary in 1990. Bernard Condon SC, for Cruise, said his client wants to apologise for his involvement and expresses his "horror" at what happened. He escaped from the car and swam to the canal bank where a passing taxi driver called the emergency services. On his birthday, she said the family brings cake to his grave. He also accepted he bought the number plates and the curtain pole. Cruise also bought a curtain pole which was later found at the house where Keane was murdered. On January 14th, gardaí went to the home of Gerard 'Ged' McKenna in Rathmullan Park in Drogheda with a search warrant. Det Inspector Aidan McCabe also told John Byrne SC for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that the chief suspect for the murder is Robert Lawlor, a "notorious" criminal who was linked to several murders. A toxicology report also showed he was negative for drugs and alcohol.

Mother of Keane Mulready-Woods tells court of impact of teenager's ... (The Irish Times)

'You don't get over it': Elizabeth Woods says she prays for justice in statement to sentence hearing for two men who facilitated 17-year-old's murder.

He is a father of four with several grandchildren with whom he has a good relationship, and has worked as a manual labourer. Ms Woods said she feels vulnerable in her home and every day she has to walk past the house where her son died. Bernard Condon SC, for Cruise, said that his client wants to apologise for his involvement and expresses his “horror” at what happened. She recalled the two burials for her son as his body parts were found at different times in different areas of the country. While in prison he has been convicted of being in possession of a mobile phone. Cruise, the inspector said, was arrested on December 8th, 2020 and over the course of 17 interviews told gardaí about his movements on the day, including dropping Crosby and Mr Mulready-Woods at McKenna’s home. He had been accused of the attempted murder of Gerard Boyle at Knockcommon, Beauparc, Slane, on November 10th, 2016. Mobile phone records showed that Crosby called Mr Mulready-Woods at 5.57pm on January 12th, and at 6.02pm he took a taxi to the Centra shop in Ballsgrove in Drogheda. During interviews with gardai Cruise admitted that he dropped Mr Mulready-Woods and Crosby at McKenna’s house where the murder happened. In a statement read out at a sentence hearing for two men who facilitated the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods, Elizabeth Woods said she prays for justice for her son’s “inhumane, violent and barbaric death”. The following day, some of the teenager’s body parts were found in a sports bag in the Moatview area of Coolock in Dublin. Det Insp McCabe said that Mr Mulready-Woods went missing on the late afternoon of January 12th, 2020.

Men admit driving Keane Mulready-Woods to house where he was ... (LMFM)

Paul Crosby (27) and Gerard Cruise (49) will be sentenced next month. Two men have admitted driving Drogheda teenager Keane Mulready-Woods to the house in the ...

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Men admit driving teen to house where he was murdered (RTE.ie)

Mr Justice Tony Hunt described the murder as "truly horrific" and said the two men will be sentenced at the Special Criminal Court next month. Keane Mulready- ...

She said it was distressing to read and hear the detail in the media. "He was my baby, he had no chance to live his life, it was taken from him in a horrifying manner," she said. "It will be us visiting his grave (on his 21st birthday) with balloons and cake.

Pair To Be Sentenced For Facilitating Murder Of Teenager Keane ... (Nova.ie)

Keane Mulready-Woods was murdered in a house in Rathmullen Park in Drogheda. Advertisement. The main suspect in his murder was identified in court for the first ...

Cruise drove them there but insisted he didn’t know what was going to happen. Keane Mulready-Woods was murdered in a house in Rathmullen Park in Drogheda. The 17-year-old was murdered after being lured to a house in Drogheda, Co Louth, just over three years ago.

Haunting nightmares will last forever – I wish he could say I love you ... (The Irish Sun)

Keane Mulready Woods' grieving mum Elizabeth Woods spoke out following the sentence hearing of two men who facilitated the 17-year-old's murder she described as ...

He escaped from the car and swam to the canal bank where a passing taxi driver called the emergency services. On his birthday, she said the family brings cake to his grave. During interviews with gardai Cruise admitted that he dropped Keane and Crosby at McKenna’s house where the murder happened. Michael Bowman SC, for Crosby, said that his client had no father growing up and had difficulties with cocaine from a young age. At the time of Keane Mulready Woods’ murder Lawlor was “heavily involved in a feud between rival criminal gangs in Drogheda”, the inspector told the three-judge Special Criminal [Court](https://www.thesun.ie/topic/court/). He could not explain how his mobile phone came to be in McKenna’s house when gardai raided it. A toxicology report also showed that he was negative for drugs and alcohol. Crosby has more than 40 previous convictions including for road traffic offences, possession of drugs, criminal damage, theft and fraud, and arson. He met Crosby there and Crosby paid for his taxi. The loss is something we will have to live with. Ms Woods, who walks past the house where her son died every day, said: “The haunting nightmares will live with us forever. The detective further told the court that mobile phone examinations showed contacts between Crosby and Lawlor on the afternoon of the murder and between Crosby and McKenna, the owner of the murder house.