Gardai hopeful more people will be charged over horrific Keane Mulready Woods murder
Gardai are still hopeful more people will be charged over the horrific and savage murder of 17 year old Keane Mulready Woods.
Detectives believe up to 11 people were involved in the gruesome killing including a number of women.
Their roles ranged from the teen’s abduction, his actual murder and interrogation, the clean up operation at the murder scene afterwards plus the dumping of various body parts from Drogheda to Dublin, and the removal of other pieces of evidence.
So far three people have been jailed in connection with his death Gerard McKenna, 53 for cleaning up the house in Rathmullen Park, Drogheda plus Paul Crosby, 29 and Gerard Cruise, 49, who both confessed to facilitating the murder.
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McKenna has served his four year sentence and is back on the streets living in Dublin.
Paul Crosby, 29 is serving a ten year sentence in Mountjoy while Cruise is being held in the maximum security Portlaoise Prison.
The main suspect who killed the youngster, the notorious Dublin hitman, Robbie Lawlor is dead.
The back garden of the boarded up house in Rathmullen Park in October 2023.
Various people have been arrested and interviewed since Keane’s kidnapping and murder in January, 2020 at the height of the so-called Drogheda drugs feud.
But files on several other suspects with Garda recommendations that they be charged have been sitting with the Director of Public Prosecutions for over a year.
An Inquest into Keane’s death has been adjourned indefinitely until all the Garda investigations have been complete.
A Garda source said: “Obviously we would like to see more people being charged.
“There are a number of individuals who have blood on their hands, who have not appeared before the courts.
“They all did different jobs no matter what they say and played an active part in Keane’s death from cleaning up, disposing of body parts and getting rid of important evidence.”
The source added: “We want to get justice for Keane and convict everyone connected to the murder.
“The files are with the DPP and it is up to them to decide whether more suspects can be charged or not.
“When this is all sorted an inquest will eventually be held.”
Keane’s murder shocked the nation after he was murdered and his body dismembered.
Various body parts were found in Coolock and Drumconrath, Dublin and on waste ground near the house where he was killed.
His mother Elizabeth told the trial that she is still haunted by the images of what happened to her young son and she could hear him calling her begging for help.
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