Cold case detective believes main suspect in Philip Cairns case lived locally

The main suspect in the disappearance of schoolboy Philip Cairns lived locally, a retired cold case detective believes.Philip was on his way back to Colaiste Eanna Secondary School after his lunch break and his school bag was found in an alley near his house six days later.The retired officer added: “It certainly wasn’t a random stranger or random grab off the street.

“The dumping of the bag a few days later is significant in so far as it was suggested that whoever was involved was local to the area or knew it very well.” The Irish Sunday Mirror also exclusively reported in 2014 how the convicted child abuser – jailed for attacks on four young girls – claimed he searched mountains for the missing schoolboy for over a year.

In the document, he wrote: “Back in the 80s, I rented a piece of land at Stepaside for one of the radio transmitters and a large number of the staff gave help when concrete arrived on site. “No one ever did and I spent the next year searching most of the mountainside but found nothing. I still believe there is some connection between the car tracks and the missing boy who was never found.”He added: “The problem with that bag, and we had it in other cold cases, is that the bag wouldn’t have been handled then the way it would be now.

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