‘Trevor is as likely to walk in the door as be found dead’
Family will never give up searching for answers... 23 years after disappearance
MISSING Trevor Deely’s family say they have not given up hope that he may walk through the front door of the family home again.
The Kildare man’s brother Mark said they would never stop searching for answers as the anniversary of his disappearance approaches.
The young bank worker, from Naas, was last seen heading home after a work Christmas party – walking down Haddington Road in Dublin 4 shortly after 4am on December 8, 2000.
Mark told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “It is hard to believe that it is 23 years, he was 22 when he went missing so he’s longer missing than we had him.
“This year was probably a slow year in that not a lot happened.
“Gardai keep in touch but there wouldn’t be a pile of new leads.
“Our biggest fear is that it ends up where Trevor Deely is just a few case notes sitting in the Garda station.”
One of the last images of Trevor captured on CCTV showed a male conversing with him at 3.34am near his Bank of Ireland workplace.
Gardai believe that male acting suspiciously was the same person seen passing the Bank of Ireland ATM just after Trevor was last seen that night.
EVIDENCE
However, Mark said there is no evidence that anything sinister happened to his little brother – and the family must cling to hope.
He said: “It’s frustrating... I think the general attitude from some people is ‘that lad is gone, move on’.
“He deserves our efforts to find out what happened and where he is.
“We don’t have any information that something sinister happened, it’s a form of purgatory.
“As ridiculous as it sounds, with the knowledge we have he is as likely to walk in the door in the morning as he is to be found dead.
“With some of the missing persons cases there is a knowledge as to what happened, but they can’t find the body.
“We don’t have that information regarding Trevor.
“We’re not foolish, we’re not living in cloud cuckoo land. Something happened, but we don’t know what.”
Mark admitted the agony of not knowing what happened to Trevor had taken its toll on his parents.
His dad Michael is in his 80s and mum Anne is in her 70s. He said: “Any festive occasion, weddings, birthdays, Christmas, there’s part of
It’s our duty to keep his name alive ...all we want to know is where he is
your family not there. There’s an empty seat at the table, as a family it’s hard.”
On Wednesday the Deely family will attend a ceremony to mark National Missing Persons Day, something that Mark dreads and welcomes in
equal measure. He said: “It sort of forces you to relive a lot of stuff, and yet it’s an event that I wouldn’t miss, there’s a strange sense of comfort.”
There are nearly 900 long-term missing persons registered in Ireland, but Trevor’s remains one of the most high profile cases in the State. Mark
said he and his family will never stop searching for answers.
He said: “Somebody knows something.
“You can’t force the knowledge out of anybody, but it is our duty to keep his name alive. All we want to know is where he is.” Meanwhile gardai have
renewed an appeal for information on the 21st anniversary of the disappearance and murder of a woman in Co Mayo.
Sandra Collins was 28 when she was last seen on December 4, 2000, in the Country Kitchen, Killala.