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THE CHIEF SUSPECT in the Deirdre Jacob murder investigation is being tracked by officers since new information about her disappearance emerged, TheJournal.ie has learned.
Officers from the Garda cold case unit yesterday upgraded the case of the Kildare woman, who disappeared in 1998, from a missing persons case to a murder investigation.
Gardaí have a chief suspect in mind – a man who has previously been convicted for rape and assault. He is considered a violent criminal with a high risk of reoffending.
Gardaí had in the past probed suspicions that the man had something to do with Jacob’s death but were unable to prove it. However, TheJournal.ie understands that new information which has come to light has strongly linked him to Jacob’s disappearance.
Cold case gardaí have also, in recent weeks, been liaising with other members in the Dublin region to ascertain the exact location of the suspect.
He had arrived back in the country in recent months to attend a family event. He is understood to be living in north county Dublin. It is understood that gardaí are getting regular updates on his whereabouts.
Gardaí, along with specialised search teams, are also expected to conduct a search of areas around Newbridge, many of which have been affected by the new road network installed in Kildare in the last 20 years.
Where Deirdre lived was around 10km from where the M7 motorway is now situated. One avenue of investigation is that Deirdre was abducted from outside her home and moved, by vehicle, to a place where her remains were buried.
Gardaí believe Deirdre was murdered either on the day of her abduction or very soon after.
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However, the roads around Newbridge and Kildare looked very different to what they do now. Gardaí already have information on the precise layout at the time and will use these maps as a guide for all upcoming searches.
The radial area around Newbridge is top of gardaí’s attention. They are looking at definite areas to search in the coming weeks.Nothing is confirmed as yet but it is expected that areas to north west of Newbridge will be searched.
The disappearance and new probe
The 18-year-old was last seen walking near her home at Roseberry in Newbridge, Co Kildare, at around 3pm on 28 July 1998.
Investigators carried out a number of significant enquiries over the last 12 months to establish her whereabouts since her disappearance. New information gathered in that time led gardaí to reexamine the case’s status and, this morning, a murder probe was confirmed.
Chief Superintendent Brian Sutton told TheJournal.ie that the process started 12 months ago.
“We pulled apart the investigation. Detectives from Kildare along with officers in the serious crime review team have been working on this.
“We saw new lines of inquiry that needed to be followed and new information had come to light as well. We sat down around six weeks ago and decided to reclassify this as a murder investigation.
Gardaí have taken more than 2,000 statements and followed over 2,500 different lines of inquiry during the 20-year investigation.
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In the case of tenants not being evicted, if the tenant is not paying rent, the landlord should be able to pause mortgage repayments. If I own an apartment/house, I don’t want someone to have to leave in the middle of a national crisis, but I might need the rent to pay the bank.
@Conall: As a pretty decent tenant, even one who got exploited by his Landlord by having “unwelcome improvements” forced on me, I understand your worries. Landlords /Landladies shouldn’t be left short of more money than they have put in. We all need to play fair.
Should employers stop paying wages due to the crisis?
Should we stop paying for services like broadband and allow those companies to shut down? Who needs internet right now.
There is a still a lot of people out there that can work and are being paid who can cover their bills. There are others that can’t and there is help for them.
@james foley: the workers in the HSE and the nurses and doctors and fire and ambulance crews and the ones working on contact tracing and those in the army on standby and those supporting those services…. would they be the civil servants you are talking about?
@Ted Logan: really? It’s either unconstitutional or it’s not. Constitution doesn’t change because of paradigm shifts, it changes because of referendums.
@mark d: it is essentially a state of emergency we are in which allows certain things to be permitted that would otherwise be unconstitutional for the greater good.
@Ted Logan: No you’re wrong there. If it’s unconstitutional landlords could essentially sue the government. Emergency or not.
Emergency legislation has to be introduced but if it unconstitutional you cannot introduction the legislation.
@Laughable: No, you are wrong, my fake account. Why don’t you just post under your real name? Why hide behind a fake account?
Under international law, rights and freedoms may be suspended during a state of emergency.
In Ireland declaring a state of “national emergency” involves Article 28.3.3° of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, which states that:
Nothing in this Constitution shall be invoked to invalidate any law enacted by the Oireachtas [parliament] which is expressed to be for the purpose of securing the public safety and the preservation of the State in time of war or armed rebellion, or to nullify any act done or purporting to be done in time of war or armed rebellion in pursuance of any such law.
So what was once unconstitutional is for the duration of the emergency suspended.
@Laughable: in times of normalcy and buoyant economy yes, they can sue, but this is a National Emergency everyone is suffering they don’t have any grounds to challenge it.
@mark d: it is unconstitutional but a temp emergency is allowed. They used one up already now a bigger emergency happened so allowable. They won’t be able to keep it going forever. And keep extending to get around the constitution
@Craic_a_tower: 2 articles:IT: Housing crisis:There is no constitutional block to rent freezes in Ireland’ &
Journal:’Column:It’s not so simple,Minister,the proposed rent freeze bill could work under the Constitution’.
@Nuala Mc Namara: yes that is the opposing OPINION but if they continue it becomes something that can be legally challenged on constitutional grounds. It would be challenged so disingenuous to say it is legal. They claim a loop hole to get around a previous ruling. Don’t be fooled
@Jim Buckley Barrett: the point i was making, was when previously a temporary rent freeze was suggested as an emergency measure due to homelessness and rent pressures, FG and FF both said it would be unconstitutional. There were legal experts who said that a temporary measure could be argued to be within confines of the Constitution the not be seen as a Constitutional infringement on the right to private property. Here’s the article written by an assistant professor of law at trinity, in case you need to educate yourself further… https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/rent-freeze-4929058-Dec2019/
No where close to enough , sit at home stressing already and then add the worry of being on the street in 3 months will push people over the edge , two where I live both laid off last Sunday paid utilities Monday night with basically nothing left , no idea when we will even get the 203 and rent due end of the month , even if used every bit of the 203 from both of us will not cover the rent , need to have some hope , following the government advice and not even leaving the house bar food shopping
@Oliver Mahon: so sorry to hear of your situation. I hope that your landlord is a decent one, I really do.
One of my kids has been laid off work, and my other daughter is a nurse, we havent seen her for 10 days, shes doing such long shifts and staying with another nurse in a rented apartment incase she brings the virus home. Good luck and hopefully stay well.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: there are some Landlords that will struggle if they don’t get rent. Until recently I myself was an accidental Landlord. I know one or two months missed rent and I’d be in trouble. I would have not been in a position to cover the mortgage and tax liabilities. The bank would not be getting a mortgage and my credit rating would suffer.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: what if it wasn’t a buy to let but a buy to live. And you have rent or a mortgage elsewhere that needs to be paid too. I rented my house for 6 years when I moved city to get a job in the last recession – house was in negative equity, I never made money renting my house but was not in a position to sell it.
It’s not alway black and white how the Landlords situation is.
@mark d: put the financial system on hold? We still need food and medicine from abroad along with all manner of other sundry products, do you expect foreign producers to provide us with their goods gratis until the financial system is removed from hold status? Because they won’t do that, they’ll sell their goods to countries and people who are willing to pay their asking prices.
@Ted Logan: The deal with the banks covers everybody. If you rented the house for 6 years and you took in no income from rent for the 6 years then you made no money. If on the other hand your tenant only paid half of your mortgage for 6 years then you made money. You are getting half your mortgage paid for 6 years and you have an asset at the end. That’s profit. A lot of people went in to negative equity for a time but property prices bounced back, so that’s a red herring.
@Ted Logan: This is a problem with some landlords. Rent is income. Any money you earn is income. You bought a house as an investment to make money. You took a risk and lost. The banks would have explained this to you. You signed off on this agreeing it was a risk. So give us a break with your poor me attitude.
@Sean: So at the end of the day the tenant should be penalised twice for the mistakes/risks of the landlords and banks? 1. By exorbitant rents and 2. as a taxpayer paying back the 64bn.
My tenancy expires in July and I expect the current measures to still be in place then (based on how long we have been told this may all go on for). My landlady will not be allowed to raise my rent (I live in a rent-control-zone) but she can easily give me notice and get me out, to replace me with someone else who will pay more. As I see it, nothing has changed. Am I wrong? I am a good tenant and have never missed a cent in rent but that doesn’t matter to most landlords who are trying to squeeze as much out of tenants as possible. Breathing space means delayed debt and protection from eviction for three months means nothing in the real world as it just kicks the problem down the road…
@ImYourNumber1Fan: they have to give you notice to cancel your contract, they can’t do anything to change this until current emergency is lifted so you are safe for a while
@ImYourNumber1Fan: Your tenancy doesn’t expiry like that. You still would have to be given notice and justication for the eviction which is what it would be considered under the law. That notice could be anything from one month to 6 months depending on how long you have been a tenant in that property.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: I agree with Jim. I am a landlord and tenancy simply doesnt work like the original poster mentioned. A tenant is covered under Part4 tenancy laws which mean that after 6 months of tenancy the landlord can only evict based on 4 fairly strict criteria and even then must follow specific rules around notice periods. Those rules stay in place until the tenancy has passed 6 years (used to be 4 years) whereby the landlord can cease the agreement without cause for a further 6 months.
@ImYourNumber1Fan: a good landlady will recognise your a good tenant. But you need to talk to each other here even if not spoke before.
She probably won’t want to lose you and she is as worried about this as you are. She will do a deal to get through this and you could become friends as a human consequence of this. Talk first imo
@mark d: agreed. If someone loses a job and is on €203 a week then there should be a rent break with a corresponding mortgage break for the landlord. The landlord still has the asset, after the freeze is lifted, so I don’t see that the break should crystallise on the tenant as the landlord will recoup the break eventually.
If a landlord relies on the rental income to survive then they should also receive the €203 allowance. It’s temporary solution to a temporary problem.
€203 a week won’t go far in getting food on the table and covering normal utilities (which is the next Pandora’s box!).
@Marcus Kittel: what logic is that? Would you expect a shop to give you free stock because you had no money because they can make a profit later? Landlords aren’t social welfare. Electricity going to be free? Landlords aren’t a few big companies but mostly regular people. Flexibility is needed for them too
@mark d: nothing it accomplishes nothing and it will only stop landlords raising rent for those who lost their jobs due to the outbreak so its absolute rubbish. People see rent freeze and will think they don’t need to pay rent which will not happen.
@Marcus Kittel: absolutely, tbh I think there needs to be commercial rent, loans, utilities, mortgages freeze for those who have lost there jobs. Just suspend the whole system so the companies closing can reopen when all this is over with little to no impact on their business and jobs.
@mark d: Oh the fish ate something which ate something else and when you and the family enjoyed the fish you unknowingly ate something that was carrying a lethal virus once ingested… and spread to anyone you and your family came into contact with which spread to anyone they came in contact with.
Tenants and landlords will need to work together. Lots of accidental landlords that have also lost their jobs and are struggling to keep up payments of two mortgages. Also lots if tenants who could struggle to pay all the rent due. Fair and decent people will agree a reduction in rent until the jobs are re-established and then try and agree a plan over time to pay off the shortfall. As although the banks may give landlords a three month mortgage holiday they will still then expect the shortfall to be made up or it will just be added to overall mortgage. The banks will certainly not be out if pocket.
@Ashley Rowland: as long as people still have selfish desires for food, heat, and healthcare then people will still need to remain unpaused to provide those things.
What about those mortgages who were sold to vulture funds, are they covered ? Or is it only the big 5, who were allowed/encouraged to sell their non preforming loans.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: Homeless people dying on the streets, kids eating from cardboard boxes on the streets, kids sleeping in garda stations, OAP’s eating handouts on window cills.. Any one with a heart would have called that an emergency too… But FFG shills love to see it, it makes them feel better about themselves, and gives them someone to spit on
When it comes down to suiting themselves and their own agenda, Ministers and T.D.s across the board have no hesitation in enacting Housing and Tenure legislation which is already common law across the rest of the E.U.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur for Housing Equality, Leilani Farah, has previously denounced the Irish Government/State for being in breach of Human Rights by failing to enact Housing and Tenure Rights legislation common to all other EU citizens for decades.
It’s only when Lobster House wants to portray itself as being pro active on the Virus issue that they unanimously declare that intimidation, rack renting and eviction of tenants shall be deemed ‘unlawful’ for a few months.
After that it will be back to removing any such Rights, and evicting three tenants PER DAY as has been the case in the current Celtic Vulture Property Apartheid racket.
Across the rest of Europe there are stringent legislated rules, regulations and Rights protecting tenants and everyone, from the arbitrary Tenant Farming Racket which has enslaved Irish workers to Private Landlordism since Strongbow introduced it in 1170.
It is way past time for a HOUSING AND TENURE RIGHTS REFERENDUM. Surely the Coronavirus crisis will be the catalyst for it.
Unbelievable … ‘temporary ban on evictions’ …. when future generations look back at the dark times of Evictions of kids from their family homes – in the early 2000s” they will wonder why not one man or woman among them stood up and said stop!
@Fiona Fitz: .. agreed. A Referendum would fix our broken Constitution that leads to evictions, rack rents, and no affordable homes for those on average incomes.
€100,000 ripoff by Government VAT(€28,000) plus county manager levies, plus land hoarding .. plus planning ( bedsit ban for others not affecting any Planner!) …. drain the swamp badly needed – A Referendum would do that
and put the citizens first and center in their own country.
What if you lose your job, I doubt any body is paying less than €800 a month on rent.
As for the landlord helping out, going by many previous experiences with landlords it’s hard enough to get them to fix minor problems let alone give some sort of break.
Im now temporarily laid off. I’ve been spending half on income on rent for 3 years so I have no savings. No idea how to keep a roof over my head or if my job will be back. 200 a week wont even cover my rent never mind anything else. We bailed out the banks, time to bail out us hard working tax payers who are ruined now because of something we have no control over.
When it comes down to suiting themselves and their own agenda, Ministers and T.D.s across the board have no hesitation in enacting Housing and Tenure legislation which is already common law across the rest of the E.U.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur for Housing Equality, Leilani Farah, has previously denounced the Irish Government/State for being in breach of Human Rights by failing to enact Housing and Tenure Rights legislation common to all other EU citizens for decades.
It’s only when Lobster House wants to portray itself as being pro active on the Virus issue that they unanimously declare that intimidation, rack renting and eviction of tenants shall be deemed ‘unlawful’ for a few months.
After that it will be back to removing any such Rights, and evicting three tenants PER DAY as has been the case in the current Celtic Vulture Property Apartheid racket.
Across the rest of Europe there are stringent legislated rules, regulations and Rights protecting tenants and everyone, from the arbitrary Tenant Farming Racket which has enslaved Irish workers to Private Landlordism since Strongbow introduced it in 1170.
It is way past time for a HOUSING AND TENURE RIGHTS REFERENDUM. Surely the Coronavirus crisis will be the catalyst for it.
@Paul Newsome: in the rest of the EU when you stop paying your rent you will be evicted and still owe the money and it happens quickly. Here you walk away without paying after over a year of living there. What is missing here is the right for landlords. It really isn’t a fair system and it should be for all parties involved. It isn’t the landlords job to act as a social welfare system. The suggestion so far seem to be landlords take a hit on their services. It just wouldn’t be fair. I will give tenants leeway but it cannot be all at my expense the same way shops don’t have to give their stock away free
@james foley: that will mean less places to rent if you give a moments thought. Is this the reward for over 50 years of providing a service to the public? Paying tax for 50 years for a pension they now shaft an industry full of similar.
So if people are paying collosal rent and have lost work how will they make up rent ? Rent supports wouldnt cover up to half of what some people pay so how will they pay the rest ? Out of the €203 they can claim ? That still wouldn’t be enough. And the landlords cant kick them out but nothing stopping them when this is over.
@Lauren Masterson: Im in this situation. Started a new job last week in a hotel, now out of work. My rent has been 40% of my income for the past 3 years so I have nothing in reserve. The 200 a week wont even pay for my room never mind food or anything else. Im panicked
Where are all these evictions under the FFG authority happening ?
Is it the banks or private landlords because if it is the banks we can expect thousands more to be evicted.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
We have been advised for years, misled in my opinion, that the rights of private property would render such a prohibition unconstitutional. Total rubbish, just needs to be done, just like the sequestration of private pension funds for austerity measures.
Get on with it.
Could someone clarify for me how a rent freeze for 3 months will work out for a tenant once the three months is up? It seems to me that the tenant would now be liable for three months back rent, which could be €6000+
Am I missing a vital piece of information from the minister’s announcement here?
A rent freeze means the landlord does not increase the rent. There is no commitment from the landlord to forego rent completely.
How is that to help any tenant?
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