Trevor Deely, 22, disappeared in the early hours of December 8, 2000 after leaving his office Christmas party in Dublin.
The last confirmed sighting appears on CCTV at 4:14 a.m., as he walked past an ATM on Haddington Road.
Prior to that, CCTV captured a mysterious man in black speaking with Trevor outside the back entrance of his workplace. This individual remains a key person of interest.
Over the decades, police have carried out extensive investigations, following nearly 900 leads.
Some men in black appear on the footage at the gates. They were later identified as Trevor’s coworkers, and another individual shown walking right after him on the footage was identified and ruled out as having any involvement in the case.
However, it remains to be determined why Trevor’s coworkers were standing outside the building, as well as the identity of the man in black who was waiting at the gates for 30 minutes before he arrived and with whom Trevor spoke before entering.
Sources https://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/04/18/enhanced-confusion/
I remember this one on here, when I went down a unexplained disappearance rabbithole. Thanks for sharing this again, and the links to the news articles!
I remember hearing on a podcast that he disappeared right before a visit from Bill Clinton, and it was suggested that if he had ended up in a dumpster (either due to foul play, or being intoxicated) that it would have been emptied & potentially cleared away as they prepared the area for a presidential visit.
That makes sense, anything short of a body would likely have been discarded or removed by secret service, his umbrella and phone were never found.
Hi. So ...speaking of that presidential visit, there is a very interesting theory laid out on my favorite podcast, "the prosecutors podcast" with Bret and Alice, suggesting something even deeper and way detailed about it. It does sound a bit far fetched at first, "but" it also oddly makes quite a bit of sense. Just thought I'd mention it here. ^
Link is in replies below if anyone is interested ^
You haven't mentioned it.
🤣 exactly what I was thinking. Why have we been left hanging
I put it in comments now. I'm a fairly new poster and was so nervous I forgot to even add it lol
No worries, I hope we haven't put you off posting 💖
Hi oh no not at all I just felt so silly when I realized I'd yacked about it but not even offered the link, let alone the name of the podcast lol
I put it in comments now. I'm a fairly new poster and was nervous lol
No, you haven't. You've put a youtube link.
I added the link because it is a lot to try and type out on here. I thought those interested might want to hear it from Bret and Alice of The Prosecutors Podcast on the podcast itself instead of from a rambler like me lol.
They (said podcasters) are very good at explaining whereas I clearly am not lol. Anyways thanks for letting me know I hadn't initially provided the info and God bless. Take a listen if you'd like. It is pretty interesting. If not, well that's oki too ^
Thanks again!^
https://youtu.be/8tV8EP0kZIs?si=awswGfcYTDd0d_8Z starts at right about 38 minutes.
First - I definitely want to say I hope he is found and his family gets closure.
I totally understand why this guy would be a person of interest, but for some reason, I just have a doubt about him actually being “mysterious.” I guess it’s true he’s mysterious in we don’t know who or what he was doing- but he could have been anyone. He could have been Just another chatty drunk walking around in the middle of the night. He could have been asking directions. Making sure Trevor was ok. Any number of other things that aren’t even nefarious.
Also, I totally still think they should continue to investigate and hopefully identify and speak with this guy. My vibes are not at all something police should use as an investigative tool.
The garda spoke to that fella i believe. Irish Times
Ah, ta very much. I’d gotten him mixed up with your man
following Trevor after he reappears on the CCTVtalking to Trevor outside the bank — seems like the guards have cleared up that it’s two different men.EDIT: Er, I got completely confused it seems. The man identified was the one seen “following” Trevor on CCTV — confirmed by the guards as just walking along minding his own business. The man hanging around outside the bank remains unidentified as of late 2025.
Oh, thank you! I had no idea.
Maybe my vibes are better than I thought. Lol.
I think the man who was cleared was the man following after Trevor after Trevor left the bank. The man hanging around outside the bank has not been identified.
Always thought the man he talks to at his job looked like had some kind of badge on like a bouncer or security would have had. The cctv footage is so eery. The man the gardai cleared is the man who walks after Trevor and these are two separate people.
Having lived in Dublin, yeah, I totally believe that it could’ve been some old gammon or a young gammon-to-be just looking for a friendly chat. There’s a lot in this case that chills me, because it seems both so commonplace and just a little subtly weird.
Why didn’t Trevor call a taxi? Why did none of his work mates offer to see him off home? I know that in 2001, there were night buses running, so if they could’ve well been running in 2000, so why walk?
I know it’s very possible there’s nothing sinister about it. Dubliners tend to have a relatively lackadaisical attitude about safety at night, compared to how my Soviet family raised me. But still. We arrived in Dublin a couple of months after Trevor’s disappearance and for the decade I lived in Dublin, I saw his poster everywhere, especially around the banks of the Liffey.
I hope his family get closure. It’s probably too much to hope he went off on his own initiative and started a new life somewhere, after all.
But like, on a personal note, it’s a little eerie to think that he’s still missing, and that his photo is still out there on lampposts and bus stop shelters, not-quite-smiling like he’s not the biggest fan of cameras, like, but doesn’t want to be antisocial.
What’s a gammon? Just curious.
Also: it's a Middle English word for "ham". Hence the reference to people with flushed faces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_(meat)
This is what I thought originally and how I assumed the word meant, but I wasn’t familiar with the slang version.
Middle-aged and older white guy with a flushed red face. I’ve heard the term in Scotland used to describe the prototypical “bloke down the pub”. Think Sergeant Fred Colon in Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Thank you for explaining; I assumed it was something along those lines.
I’m a Floridian, so this is as intelligible to me as the word you described. ;)
After refreshing my memories of the case (this is a pretty good overview), it turns out there was a taxi strike and that’s why he walked.
Still. So bloody weird to read about a hometown case and your man’s on CCTV toting a huge golfing brolly just like my mama and I used to carry, because anything smaller or flimsier might as well be a wet newspaper taped to a stick, with the winds we get in Dublin.
EDIT: Write-up linked is up to date and accurate regarding random men in black seen following Trevor. I just can’t read.
I'm from Dublin and remember the posters at the time. he didn't order a taxi because of the taxi strike that night.
I think he saw something he shouldn't or as others said a drug deal gone wrong .
There was a taxi strike that night.
Taxi strike.
Not everyone operates the buddy system to see people to their front door. "tend to have a relatively lackadaisical attitude" as a Dubliner, I tend to think some others have a relatively paranoid attitude about it :)
But were there night buses running? What was the timetable? What were the routes? He wanted to call by his workplace before going home. Neither walk is all that far. I know the area and I wouldn't have bothered waiting to take a bus instead of walking those distances.
Is there really any need for using disparaging terms like ‘gammon’?
“Spinach and gammon”
Agreed, not really needed.
Gardai still want to speak to the guy who Trevor was talking to at the gate. See eg Irish Mirror 7 December 2025: "An Garda Síochána is seeking to identify an unknown male who was seen conversing with Trevor Deely less than an hour before he was last sighted on December 7, 2000. Gardaí have launched a renewed appeal for information on Deely’s whereabouts on the 25th anniversary of his disappearance and revealed that they are still looking for an unknown male who was seen having a conversation with him after a Christmas party on the night he was last seen."
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/trevor-deely-mystery-man-appeal-36363705
It was patently obvious to anyone with eyes that the bloke "following" Trevor in Haddington Road was wearing a completely different type of coat to the man at the gate. Trevor had only just come back from his wild goose chase to Alaska where he had got the cold shoulder from the woman he went to see. I suspect he ended up in the river or the canal basin after making a spur of the moment decision to end it all, but who knows? What happened to his umbrella if so?
I firmly believe that if he had gone into the canal, he would have been found. The Dodder is more likely - he would have had to cross it to reach his home and it would have been very high and fast with the weather being what it was.
The one thing which I pointed out on a recent Trevor Deely thread was that he was last seen walking down Haddington Road - which, although it wasn't the most direct route to his flat on Serpentine Ave, had a 24 hour newsagents at the end where he was likely headed to get cigarettes.
The thing is the CCTV footage shows him walking down Haddington Road before it branches off to Percy Place - there was a squat or doss house on Percy Place at the time where junkies would shoot up and presumably drug dealers and other ne'er-do-wells would loiter. Deely's family clarified that he never did hard drugs- but was he partial to the odd joint? Even if he wasn't did he walk past the place and get into trouble somehow?
There was a documentary on RTE around the year 2000 called Gorman where the people of the night economy (taxi drivers, prostitutes) and it showed the house on Percy Place where the junkies would shoot up but the documentary seems to have been erased from the Internet (I saw it on YouTube just a few years ago)- it would be great if someone could find it
Definitely a case that has stuck with me. It’s like…we are so close and yet so far from figuring it out.
Last major update was in 2023 when the man in black in the 2nd footage was finally identified/interviewed. I feel this has gotta be a case of foul play or an accident.
How did the co-workers explain their standing outside that building at that hour, in the cold?
Could've been any number of reasons, like waiting for a taxi/pick-up, or having a final chat before parting ways. I really don't think there's anything suspect about it.
Taxis were on strike that night so waiting a while for a lift is likely
Satisfactorially, it seems.
One of the cases I always think about even after all these years.
The other two being the murder of Dorothy Jane Scott and the disappearances of the Springfield Three.
Something sinister about all 3 cases.
The second link says that the “mysterious man in black” is not a person of interest, as the police identified and spoke to him.
Given that there’s no sign any crime took place, the most likely explanation given the current facts is alcohol-induced misadventure. Ireland has one of the highest rates of problem drinking in the world, particularly among younger males: https://alcoholireland.ie/facts-about-alcohol/how-much-do-we-drink/
Before he disappeared, he visited his office, had a cup of tea with a coworker and checked his email. To me, that doesn’t suggest that he was too drunk to walk home safely.
Regular, un-drink-impaired, misadventure is possible. It was rainy and late.
None of those things is particularly difficult to do when impaired, even blackout drunk.
No, but the coworker would have noted how impaired he was while doing these activities.
There’s a piece of information missing here: why was his colleague at work, and apparently working, at 3:30am on a Friday?
Also, according to link 1, they had coffee, not tea.
They worked international hours.
That can’t be the full story if this guy was allowed in after having spent the evening at the bar.
What do you mean?
My husbands office used to be close to our favourite bar- After plenty of nights out we would let ourselves in to use the bathroom, change clothes or pick something up after a night out.
You say his office; was his office in a large company like the Bank of Ireland?
More to the point, the events in question don’t just involve people stopping by an office to pee or whatever; there was someone working in the office, and apparently the security guard didn’t see it as weird to let someone in at 3:30am who presumably had signs of having been drinking. None of that is particularly normal…
Yes, a large office.
Maybe it depends on the industry, but in finance (now, and especially at the time) it wouldn’t have been unusual for people to be coming and going from the office a bit worse for wear 😂
I don’t think a security guard was on duty, but even saying “Hey, just going in for a chat with Steve, he’s working late” would be a very normal thing to say!
i’ve never worked in an office where the guards would’ve barred an employee who wasn’t belligerent from entering just because they were drunk and it was late, and I’ve only ever worked for massive organizations. I once ducked into my office at like 3:00 am on a random saturday out because I wanted my desk supply of advil, no one said anything and I wandered on up like it was monday at 8:00 am.
like the other commenter said, it’s dead common, at least at a lot of places, for people to leave their umbrellas and heavy coats and briefcases and all at their desks, go for drinks, and show up drunk later to pick them up and be on their way.
This is fully explained and your unwillingness to accept it is frankly bizarre.
It’s not been fully explained; no one has conclusively determined whether the bank had a formal night shift or not, nor whether it was normal for drunk employees to show up to work at 3:30 am.
Nobody has confirmed it to you. That's different.
even being a little drunk increases your risk of ending up in a stupid situation, even if you’re not black out. I agree that it’s likely that he wasn’t ridiculously drunk, or the coworker would’ve noted that, but if he was drunk at all, he was more likely to stumble, trip, try to pee in a river and fall in, what have you.
That’s why in the U.S., you generally can’t drive if your BAC is .08 or over, because you’re somewhat impaired and more likely to make bad choices. that’s as little as 4 drinks for a slim guy like Trevor.
I do agree that the initial comment is overstating their point, because you have to allow for the fact that he interacted with people after he left the club, and there’s no statement that we know of from them that he was too drunk to function.
He was seen staggering down Haddington Road after he left the office. Quite clearly, he was inebriated.
The source above says “walking”.
I've seen that video on the documentary. Trevor is not walking in a straight line I mean - I meant to say he was weaving about rather than staggering.
The documentary video clip from the Haddington Road is faster than real time, plus he's walking in strong wind, and avoiding puddles. The footage of him leaving the office is in real time, sheltered from the wind, and he seemed to have no problem walking a straight line.
Okay, thanks.
It's a real mystery.
The second link explains that the “man in black” seen on separate CCTV cameras is actually two separate men. The one identified was some random guy walking behind Trevor by happenstance, a couple of moments after last known footage of Trevor. The OP mentions this guy, too.
The unidentified man is the one seen talking to Trevor on CCTV outside of Trevor’s place of employment. I think it’s likely that guy’s also some random chatty gammon trying to bum a smoke off of Trevor, to be quite honest, but it’s still a separate guy.
The write-ups need to do a better job differentiating people; there appear to be at least 4 “men in black.”
Indeed, there are:
"two coworkers men in black" identified (17? years later)
"waiting at gate man in black" unidentified
"following behind man in black" identified (23 years later)
The length of time it took to identify anyone is troubling.
The trouble is, people out at 3-4 in the morning were probably drunk and didn't remember exactly where they had been the following morning
Honestly, it’s more surprising to me that they were identified at all after so many years.
Yes. Given that the only public evidence is CCTV of dire quality and it is well known that the ability to identify fades fast with time, I wonder how the 17 and 23 year IDs were made and whether the technique(s) used would withstand scrutiny.
(I've done a few writeups of British cases around that time where CCTV was recovered but the images were never publicised, presumably because they were useless).
There are different “men in black” in this story. One group consisted of his coworkers, another was the man seen walking the same route as Trevor shortly after he left the bank,both cleared.And the third, who has never been identified and is considered a person of interest, stayed at the bank gates for half an hour before Trevor arrived and even exchanged words with him, as shown on CCTV.
An addendum: From what I’ve seen, the coworkers were only identified years later, when the police used image enhancement technology. Why didn’t they come forward on their own earlier, either when it happened or in the years leading up to them being identified by police?
There’s no indication a crime happened here. It was 4:00 am, and everyone named had been drinking; it’s likely no one actually remembers anything clearly. Also, do we know the coworkers didn’t come forward?
Absolutely. It’s been a while since I went down this particular rabbit hole but I’m sure I remember there being a river on his walk home. Bad weather, slippery paths, river, alcohol….
A much more common occurrence than people realise. Unresolved but no real mystery here
There’s a canal on the way, not a river. If I recall correctly, all canals in Dublin are proper canals with locks and everything, which would make it difficult for a body to make it out of the canal. It’s a little more mysterious than him falling into the Liffey, by me.
In the last known footage he had already crossed over the canal so he didn't end up in the there. The River Dodder is a strong possibility. It is a notoriously fast flowing river during bad weather.
If he'd made it as far as the Dodder on his walk home, that should be the bridge just south of the US embassy, a junction with a lot of CCTV. While it can get a lot of water in heavy rain, look at it on a normal day and you'll see it's still full of rocks, overhanging branches, and just a short distance downriver from that bridge, a small island taking up most of the width of the river, and covered in bushes and trees. Plenty of underwater obstacles to get caught up on.
It seems unlikely to me that they wouldn't have found traces of his clothes caught up on something.
Plus with the taxi strike other people were walking around, so a man falling over a well lit bridge should be noticed, and the various embassies in the area should have him on CCTV if he passed.
That's why I suspect that whatever happened, might have taken place on a side alley off Haddington Road, such as one might pop into to relieve oneself while walking home. He had a cup of coffee / tea in the office before heading back into the cold windy night. That caffeinated beverage probably went straight to his bladder once the wind hit him again.
Not necessarily. That would be a fair assumption if he hadn't turned onto Haddington Road, but the layout of the roads in the area, the bridge on Lansdowne Road is closer than the one on Merrion Road. It's not out of the question that he may have even gone to the bridge at the end of Bath Avenue.
When the river is high, it's definitely deep and fast enough to sweep things over those deposits without being caught. It's enough to reshape those stony deposits ever time there's significant rainfall and river flow.
The last sighting of him on Haddington Road CCTV is very frequently mentioned, but it's frustratingly hard to get any information on 1) where on Haddington Road that was and 2) if there were CCTV cameras elsewhere (like in the 24hour shop) where he would have been spotted, and wasn't. From the comments here, it seems that the sighting on Haddington Road was before the turn-off to Percy Place, and that is definitely the kind of side alley you'd turn onto to take a leak.
The CCTV was from a bank of Ireland Branch that is now the Milano's restaurant, so he'd just started down Haddington Road, not far from Baggot Street Bridge, and yes just before the turn off to Percy Place.
Percy Place was lot dodgier back in those days.
Yes, he could have continued straight on Bath Avenue to cross the Dodder where it is clearer and tidal, but why would he take such a long route home in bad weather? If he was just going to the shop on Bath Avenue, his shortest way home would still be down Shelbourne Road and cross the Dodder at Ballsbridge.
As for the CCTV, remember this was back in the day when it was on CCTV, and so shops tended to switch tapes each day, and reuse the same tape if there wasn't an incident in the shop. If he was in the shop or passed by other cameras in the early hours of Friday morning, the tape could have been reused by the time Trevor was reported missing on Monday. The only reason the CCTV on Haddington Road wasn't recorded over was because Trevor's brother went to so many businesses asking them to save their video if they hadn't already recorded over it.
TBH, I use that shop sometimes, and would be going to a similar destination to where Deely would have been going, and I'd go down that way sometimes. You could even imagine him turning right after exiting because the wind direction was blowing down Shelbourne.
Or Lansdowne.
Yeah, I get that. My frustration is more about how it's not detailed in any of the accounts, like, "he may have been on CCTV at this shop, but the tapes were cleared", which is not the same as "he was not spotted on CCTV from the shop at that time". It's rarely given clarification.
He would have to cross the river Dodder on his way home
I agree that if he had gone into the canal, he would have been found. However to reach his home from where he was, he would have needed to cross the Dodder river. Which crossing he would have used isn't obvious, assuming he was going to the 24hr shop at the top of Bath Avenue, and two of the road crossings have been rebuilt to incorporate storm defences since 2000, so I can't comment on how possible it may have been for someone to fall in under the conditions. No path would have run alongside the river, though.
I'd posted this elsewhere (in a now deleted post), but that man had been identified & ruled out:
Family reveal gardaí have traced man seen on CCTV walking behind Trevor Deely on night he disappeared; The man has been ruled out as a suspect of anything sinister relative to Trevor’s disappearance
Edit: only realized there were two shady guys caught on CCTV, making one identified yet one remains unknown (reread the article after u/RabbitOld5783 replied to this effect - thx)
The man walking not the man at the job entrance, two different people
The Prosecutors Podcast did a great two-part series on this case a few years ago. Episodes 189 and 190.
Likely in the liffey
Death by drunk misadventure is always an option but I get the feeling someone who is drunk enough to wander off and die or fall in a river isn’t going to have a cup of tea and check their email before heading out
Wonder if he had a secret or double life that no one else is aware of, and that came back to bite him
I’m always skeptical of someone disappearing or being murdered because “they saw something they shouldn’t” but I suppose that is an option as 4am seems like a prime time to move a body, and a murder to cover up a murder is fairly logical. I can’t see someone being killed because they saw a burglary, a drug deal, or something of the sort
I guess it could be misidentification too, if someone thought Trevor was someone else who had a price on their head
This is a very eerie case of a person vanishing into thin air. Right now I’d say the person he talked to is a potential suspect, but as for why they are a suspect, I couldn’t say. It would just be bad luck to talk to a random person at 4am and shortly that random person disappeared, if you didn’t have anything to do with their disappearance
There was a Tax strike. It was Christmas party season. The weather was dreadful. Torrential rains 60/70 MPH winds.
So you have a scenario where there is the potential, in fact a distinct, probability that a higher number of people than usual could be drink driving. High rates of accidents and individuals not wanting to report any accident involving a pedestrian like Trevor being hit because drunk or just the type that wants no contact with the Garda ( Irish Police) /
People hanging around, waiting for non existence taxis, lifts wouldn't have been that unusual under the circumstances.
I think this is random but then covered up. Either that or this a a case that's more mysterious than it actually is because not all information is in the public domain- not uncommon.
I generally think that hit and runs where the driver takes the body are extremely uncommon. It would take a certain type of person, and if the weather is that bad, I’m not sure they even get out of the car. Though this scenario does seem to be true with Asha Degree, I think it’s extremely rare
I wonder how much info police would release if it’s “sensitive”, like a possible affair, or illicit activities?
I was going for the obvious over some of the wilder theories out there. Often in these cases, like cars found in bodies of water years later, what often seems a mysterious is an accident. I would point as per Asha degree and the Scottish cyclist that was buried alive, that the only person who would know what happened in a hit and cover up, as opposed to run, would be a perp.
WE have hundreds if not thousands of unsolved disappearances and/or murders. It's why this sub exists. There is a we caught 'em bias involved in how we view unsolved cases. In that we look to the ones we have solved for the explanations for the unsolved, not thinking that unsolved cases don;t have the same answers we are used to getting, don;t have the same solutions. It's why they are unsolved.
Brian Shaffer for instance. The fact that there was serious building work/refurb going on, that there was a huge bin store as well, emptied the following day ( note falling asleep in a large wheelie bin to end up in a crusher see Corrie McTeague) seems to get omitted for the mysterious and eerie narratives. Oh and the building site downstairs in that mall is treated like Fort Knox, when we know the usually aren't that secure. ( no one has confirmed the site was locked up properly that night, LE did not test site security, which is designed for basic health and safety and to prevent casual site theft instead we rely on a site manager who states he could not have entered!)
It's also true that things like weather conditions, and other normal contexts are often overlooked like a taxi strike, terrible weather and Christmas party season and are not put together to under stand the context, as it doesn't suit the weird mystery narrative.
I wonder how often the Canals of Dublin are dredged too. I notice Trevor's walk home crossed several/were near bodies of water. If the winds were that high, if Trevor was even mildly drunk which dampens our reflexes and response times...
The fact that Trevor was not considered or noticed to be missing until he didn't show up for work the following Monday, gave opportunity for either his body time to wash away or be hidden by someone.
I strongly believe that if he had gone into the canals, he would have been found. There are two locks between where he was last spotted, and the Grand Canal Dock, as well as another between that and the Liffey.
This is what I think too. Haddington road and the surrounding areas used to be known for prostitutes, brothels, drug deals and other shady stuff. Nowadays it’s a really nice posh area. I wonder if he took the route down Haddington road because he intended to engage in something like that and it went wrong.
The Gardaí spend a lot of time canvassing in prisons for information and in 2017 (I think) they acted on a tip from an informant and dug up a site in Chapelizod but it didn’t lead to anything. A lot of people in Dublin seem to think a known Crumlin based criminal is responsible for Trevor’s disappearance and it was a random chance encounter. But that’s just hearsay I’ve no idea if it has any substance.
Always thought it looks like he has a badge on that someone who is a bouncer or security would wear the man at the gate.
Well there a two peoples of interest from the footage. The man that stood at the entrance to the building and spoke with Trevor has never been interviewed or identified by the police. He stood at night time and waited there on camera for over half an hour. He is definitely somebody the police will desperately want to be found. As for the other “mysterious guy” I find it hard to believe that person came foward 20+ years later and recognised himself. I personally believe the first individual who spoke with Trevor very well could be involved somehow.
I suspect the Garda may have had an idea of who man number two was at the time, they just didn’t cooperate and there were no grounds for arrest.
This is a continually perplexing case. One angle which I have seen very little on is whether the "corporate side" could have been responsible.
At the time, HR often didn't exist in UK (and presumably Irish) companies. I worked for a FTSE 100 company (now defunct) where there was only "personnel", whose duties stopped at salaries, expenses and allowances. The general position was that HR was unnecessary because "we employ intelligent people" (with an implication that they would behave because they were intelligent). That was rubbish - the company was a nest of snakes.
I wonder if the Irish police thought "The Bank of Ireland employs intelligent people" so any investigation of the staff was skimped or even not done, although there could have been much which should have been looked at.
Edit: Interesting downvote. Unfortunately, the common notion that middle class jobs employ nice people is often false, and Trevor was 22 so would have been at particularly at risk in any bullying or other misdemeanours.
I never thought any of the people in the video were suspicious.
I saw a documentary on this case. A detective said he believes he fell into the canal with his umbrella. The canal runs into the basin further down but unfortunately cannot be drained as it would affect the integrity of the buildings next to the basin.
More likely fell into the River Dodder - had he fallen into the canal he likely would have been found.
This may be what he said.
Apologies, it's been a while since I've seen it.
There are multiple sets of locks between that section of the canal and the Canal Basin. If he fell in, they would have found him floating in the canal.
A detective on a documentary said it. I don't know Dublin and would've thought he'd have been found if he fell into the canal.
If they have been ruled out of having any involvement, why they were there isn't relevant.
It was a very wet and blustery night - the man could have just have been sheltering for a while. I don't recall this ever being suggested as an explanation.
Wasn't the US president due in town that morning? Maybe the shady characters are secret service? Not unusual with the US Embassy being so close! Just my tuppence worth.
Conspiracy theories not only do not help, but also make matters worse in most cases....
So instead of asking an (alleged) drunk to move out of the area, or at worst calling the local authorities and having him arrested.
The Secret Service:
That seems like a lot of effort and potential failure points instead of just saying "please leave the area!" to this guy.
Never said any of that. I just thought that if the still unidentified individual(s) hadn't come forward, perhaps they were from the Embassy and simply left the country oblivious! Sorry if I've upset anyone.
Trevor went missing the Friday before the Clinton's arrival, which was on the following Tuesday. Not sure why you think the Secret Service would be walking around at 4am days in advance without their long coats, umbrellas, (and more importantly, vehicles).