Inside boarded-up house of horrors where boy, 17, was murdered and dismembered
A boarded-up house that became the setting of a gruesome killing near Dublin is now being renovated, it has been reported.
The cold-blooded murder of Keane Mulready-Woods, 17, in Drogheda, County Louth in January 2020 shocked Ireland after parts of his body were found in a bag in the Irish capital.
Now the bungalow - which has been abandoned and empty since the horrific crime - is back on the council's housing list. Prior to the murder, it had been home to Gerard "Ged" McKenna for several years.
The 54-year-old dad-of-eight was hit with a four-year jail term after Ireland's highest criminal court heard he was ordered to clean the house where the young man was murdered by serial killer Robbie Lawlor. McKenna, who was released from jail last year, is thought to have avoided returning to the council-controlled house since, and is now living with friends.
Since one of the country's most terrible murders took place there, the property was boarded up. It stayed like this until recently when Louth County Council hired contractors to fully renovate the bungalow. The exterior of the property has been completely re-plastered and repainted, with new windows set to be installed in the coming weeks, reports Dublin Live.
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The locl councils plans to renovate it and rent it out (Irish Mirror)The property is set to be renovated and rented out by the local council. "There have been a few locals who have been enquiring about the property asking when will it be ready as they want to live in it," a source told us. "It actually looks a lot better than it was when it was lying there for nearly four years after the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods." The source also said: "The work needed to be done on it."
When we visited the site in October 2023, steel shutters covered the windows and front door, making it uninhabitable. A steel gate blocking off the back of the property had been removed, revealing a garden littered with rubbish and remnants of a fire.
Keane was murdered on January 12, 2020, and parts of his body were found in a bag in the Moatview area of Coolock in Dublin. Two days later, his head, hands and feet were found in a burning car in the Drumcondra area of the capital.
When Gardaí searched the house at Rathmullen Park, they found blood splatter and evidence that attempts had been made to remove it. McKenna had been ordered to get rid of evidence after allowing his house to be used by Keane's killer Lawlor. He later told Gardaí he had carried out the botched clean-up on the directions of the psycho gangster because if he didn't, "he [Lawlor] will mince my child".
Keane Mulready, who was murdered over a two-day paeriod in January 2020 (Ciaran Burns <[email protected]>)Two other men, Paul Crosby, 27, and Gerard 'Rocky' Cruise, 49, were jailed for 10 and seven years respectively for their roles in the gruesome murder. They helped a crime gang with the murder of the teenager a killing that a judge called "a heinous and appalling crime" in court.
Both men said they helped with the murder of the sad young lad between January 11 and 13, 2020. Keane was tricked into going to the house where he was killed and cut up, gardai think, by Lawlor, who used a drill and some other tools.
The thug, who was shot dead in Belfast three months after the awful murder in April 2020, was known in court by a top detective as "a criminal of significant notoriety linked to several murders and was heavily involved in the Drogheda feud and other feuds". Many others thought to have given help to the gang behind the terrible killing of Keane have been taken in and questioned by Gardaí.
The investigators have sent information to the Director of Public Prosecutions but are still waiting for instructions on what to do next. When asked yesterday about fixing up the murder house, Louth County Council said they would "not be commenting on this matter".
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