MELISSA MAHON - Aged 15 years - Sligo (Eire)

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:53 am

MELISSA MAHON



DOB: 10-Mar-1992
Missing: 14-Sep-2006
Height: 4'10" (147 cm)
Eyes: Blue Age Now: 15
Sex: Female
Weight: Unknown
Hair: Black
Missing From: SLIGO, IRISH REPUBLIC

Circumstances:
Melissa went missing from her home address in Sligo, Ireland and has not been seen since 14th September 2006. When last seen she was wearing a pink jacket and black tracksuit bottoms.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
Uk Police National Missing Persons Bureau
Anybody with information should contact Police National Missing Persons Bureau on Freephone 0808 100 8777 or
Garda Siochana 00-3531-666 6666 (24hrs)

Poster:

http://tinyurl.com/24agg7

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:57 am

The Irish Emigrant

13 November 2006

Sligo gardaí issued a renewed appeal on Thursday for the public's help in finding a 14-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly two months. Melissa Mahon was last seen at her home in Rathbraughan Park, Sligo on September 13 last. Her mother, Mary Mahon, said that she believes the girl to be still in the Sligo area and that she had returned from England last year to bring up her children in a safer environment. Melissa is 5ft tall, of thin build, with long black hair and a pale complexion. Anyone with information should contact the gardaí in Sligo at 071-9157000.

http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=177&iArticleID=61280

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:02 am

RTE News

10 March 2007

Gardai renew appeal over missing teenager

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0310/mahonm.html?rss

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:07 am

Sligo Weekender

18 December 2007

Fresh appeal to find missing Melissa Mahon

* Gardai (Irish Police) believed she was alive and well just missing outside Sligo County. I put up posters in cities thinking the draw of the big smoke.

http://archives.tcm.ie/sligoweekender/2007/12/18/story34523.asp

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:10 am

Sligo Weekender

5 February 2008

Lough Gill search for missing teen

http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story/?trs=mheyqlqlid

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:12 am

Please note that there is no confirmation yet, just suspicions that Melissa has been murdered.

Sligo Weekender

5 February 2008

Description of Killer released

http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story/?trs=mheyqlidmh

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:14 am

Merly am I losing my marbles? I have been following this case for a long time and thought I included it somewhere. Maybe I just can't find it. I'm shocked at the latest news, as it is local news and I don't live anywhere near there, so didn't hear.

Vonb, when you see this, did I miss something on RTE news? Can't believe I didn't hear this and it is very distressing.

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:03 pm

No update on lake search at the moment in the news.

I did notice Melissa is highlighted on missingkids.co.uk picture tab.

Anyone in London keep a lookout as family connections too.

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:43 pm

Please note news is distressing

Confirmation is required that it relates to Melissa

RTE News

12 February 2008

Human remains have been found in lake

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0212/sligo.html

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:21 am

Irish Independent

13 February 2008

Remains pulled from lake in hunt for missing Melissa

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/remains-pulled-from-lake-in-hunt-for-missing-melissa-1288397.html

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:50 pm

Eircom News Ireland

14 February 2008

Post Mortem for body found in Sligo Lake

http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/12201586?view=Eircomnet

hippy
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:33 pm

Independent.ie

Sunday February 17 2008

By JEROME REILLY

Melissa case suspect says I didn't rape daughters

Little doubt amongst gardai that body found in lake is missing girl Melissa Mahon went missing in September 2006

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/melissa-case-suspect-says-i-didnt-rape-daughters-1291302.html

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:37 am

I think about Melissa's case daily. As soon as the post mortem results are in, I will post here. The weeks wait isn't easy for us, must be very difficult for the family and families of all the missing in Ireland.

merlynsam
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:13 pm

Sligo Weekender

19/2/2008

Melissa ‘strangled’ claim by two girls

http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story/?trs=mheysnkfey

merlynsam
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:02 pm

Independent.ie

Wednesday February 20 2008

By Anita Guidera

Lake body identification 'weeks' away

GARDAI probing the disappearance of teen Melissa Mahon may have to call in international DNA experts to identify human remains removed from Lough Gill in Sligo last week.

Sources close to the investigation say it could take weeks or longer before a positive identification of the remains is made.

The 14-year-old was initially thought to have run away but the investigation took a sinister twist over two weeks ago when gardai, acting on information received, began searching Lough Gill on the outskirts of the town where skeletal remains were then discovered.

A local man in his forties, who claims to be a suspect, has denied being involved in a sexual relationship with the teen or having anything to do with her disappearance.

But breaking her silence yesterday, her mother said she believed her daughter was having a relationship with the man.

Carmel Mahon told how the man had befriended her daughter. "She said nothing was happening but she kept going back. I would tell her not to go back there but she would sneak out the window at night time and go there," she said.

The man has never been formally questioned by gardai about the disappearance. He has insisted that his connection with the young teen was a father-daughter type bond.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lake-body-identification-weeks-away-1294081.html[/quote]

merlynsam
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:04 pm

Irish Abroad

February 20, 2008

By Paddy Clancy

Bizarre Abuse Case in Sligo

DETECTIVES are investigating horror claims of sex-abuse and murder of a teenage girl after skeletal human remains were recovered from Lough Gill in Co. Sligo.

Although Gardai (police) still cannot say whether the remains are male or female, they believe the bones are those of 14-year-old Melissa Mahon, who disappeared more than 18 months ago from her home in Sligo town.

Initially it was thought the youngster, who hadn’t settled since her family moved into the area two years earlier, had returned to England.

But the focus shifted dramatically three weeks ago when two sisters with whom Melissa was acquainted told detectives she had been murdered by their father.

The sisters, now aged 15 and 16 and in the care of authorities, also claimed they had been r*ped by their own father and that he was the parent of a baby the youngest girl gave birth to recently.

The girls gave detectives precise details of how they claim the murder was carried out. They said their father, who had been conducting an illicit affair with Melissa, strangled her in an upstairs bedroom of their home in September 2006 and wrapped the body in a blanket or sleeping bag.

They said he then forced them to help him carry the bundle down the stairs where it was put in a car trunk before being driven to the shores of Lough Gill and dumped in the lake made famous by W.B. Yeats in his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”

Just two weeks after the sisters’ claims the skeletal remains were recovered close to a spot where they said Melissa’s body was dumped. Pieces of a sleeping bag were also recovered.

However, despite private suspicions, police insist the remains cannot be identified until extensive DNA examination is carried out.



http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/news/Articles/Bizarre-Abuse-Case-in-Sligo230208.aspx

merlynsam
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:08 pm

Irish Post

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

BY ELAINE SHERIDAN

Missing Melissa: body pulled from lake

A BODY found at the bottom of a lake in the west of Ireland is thought to be that of a young teenage girl from London.

For the last week the usually picturesque Lough Gill in Co. Sligo has been the scene of an intensive garda investigation, connected with the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl in 2006.

The horror unfolded as human remains were pulled from the vast watery expanse.

And it is now believed they are those of missing teenager Melissa Mahon.



http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story/?trs=qlaumhsn&cat=news

merlynsam
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:09 pm

pam supportfromireland wrote:I think about Melissa's case daily. As soon as the post mortem results are in, I will post here. The weeks wait isn't easy for us, must be very difficult for the family and families of all the missing in Ireland.

Thanks Pam. I suspect that someone hasn't covered their tracks this time - the information was just too accurate to be fabricated (and a body WAS found).

Sadly, it looks like we could be moving another thread to the closed cases this week......

I have updated the news articles so that others can follow the case.

merlynsam
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:46 am

Bumping for Pam - and news on the post mortem?

I can't find anything online

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:53 am

Hi Merly,

It will hit front page news when it happens, so nothing yet. Waiting from news from England for forensic identification. Expecting very soon as keep checking.

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:37 pm

Highlighting this article again as up to six weeks wait is mentioned

Irish Independent

14 February 2008

Post-mortem to be carried out on Lough Gill remains

http://tinyurl.com/2jqvv2

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:28 pm

No results yet. Hope very soon as the wait is hard for me no mind the family !!

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:23 pm

I have contacted a paper that has covered the case since Melissa went missing. As soon as they get news, I hope they'll inform me.

It has been a long wait but just shows these procedures take time.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:31 pm

Thanks for the update Pam, I have been looking for information on this case but I have not been able to find any!

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:28 pm

Eircom News Ireland

10 April 2008

Man held over Sligo Girl's disappearance

http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/12597272?view=Eircomnet