“I’m going to retell the story of what actually happened,” Boy B said. His solicitor told the detectives the boy had reflected on his statement overnight and wanted to make a change. The station had been closed to all other prisoners to ensure the boy didn’t come into contact with any other adults. Because the Children Act forbids child suspects from being detained in cells, gardaí had cleared an office for the boy and brought in bedding so he and his mother could sleep there overnight. The boy had spent the night in an office on the second floor of the station. The first change to his story came the next morning, at the start of interview four. ‘I’m going to retell the story of what actually happened,’ Boy B said. Daly and Gannon put it to Boy B repeatedly that the route he claimed they took that day in no way matched what was captured by the cameras in and around St Catherine’s Park, which sits on the Lucan side of Leixlip, on the border between Co Kildare and Co Dublin.īut Boy B stuck to his story, offering alternate explanations to gardaí for the inconsistencies between the CCTV footage and his account. And that he left Ana with Boy A before going home to do his homework.Īs part of their investigation, gardaí had examined more than 700 hours of CCTV footage from the area around where Ana disappeared. Slowly but surely the detectives’ questioning had caused the boy to revise his account of the day of Ana’s murder.īoy B had started the interview process the day before by repeating what he first told gardaí the previous week: that Boy A had asked him to call to Ana’s home, in Leixlip, just outside Dublin in Co Kildare, and bring her to him in St Catherine’s Park, so they could talk.

They also knew there was a big difference between knowing something and proving it. They knew Boy B was present when Ana died, and they knew he had played a role in bringing her to the abandoned house where she was killed. The investigators had a mountain of forensic evidence, but it was all against Boy B’s coaccused, and one-time best friend, Boy A. The boy’s solicitor, who had remained silent for most of the process, had begun to clash with the interviewing gardaí more frequently over their questioning.įor the Garda detectives in the room, Donal Daly and Damien Gannon, the stress came from the knowledge that they had only a few more hours to get the boy, who would later become known to the public as Boy B, to reveal how 14-year-old Ana Kriégel had been murdered, 11 days earlier.

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