Police heard that a boy who was later found in a storm drain had been behaving “strangely” before he left home for the final time, an inquest has been told.
The naked body of Noah Donohoe, 14, was discovered in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after he left home on his bike to meet two friends in the Cavehill area of the city.
Detective Sergeant Gardiner was being questioned at the inquest at Belfast coroner’s court about CCTV footage collected from the Fitzroy Avenue area where Noah lived and about why the boy turned right after leaving his home.
Brenda Campbell KC, counsel for Noah’s mother Fiona Donohoe, said he could have…