Noah Donohoe Inquest: Unraveling the Laptop Theft

0:00On March 30th, the Inquest into the death of 14-year-old Noah Donahoe from Belfast has hit its 10th week. Noah vanished on his bike in the Cave Hill area back in June 2020, and his naked body turned up six days later in a North Belfast storm drain. Tunnel A post-mortem pointed to drowning as the likely cause, and his mom Fiona has shown up to court every single day. Witness statements zeroed in on a laptop linked to Noah's Rucksack, stolen by Darryl Paul from Cliftonville Avenue, who already pled guilty to that. FFFT, Paul showed up at a flat on June 21st, trying to sell the laptop to AC2 and AC3, folks who connected over online bingo during lockdown. AC2 got suspicious, since there was no charger and his screams stolen. Two anonymous calls hit police lines on June 24th and 25th, tipping them off about Paul Hawking Noah's gear, including a green North, face coat and schoolbooks with his name. The call is pushed hard when nothing happened right away, but AC3 flat out denies it was

1:01her voice, or that she made them. Under grilling from lawyers, AC3 insisted she never gave Paul a ride that night, never called cops for her car with AC2, and nobody answered her. Phone with her exact details when police rang back. She called claims against her straight-up lies, swore no threats, hit her or her family before testifying, and stayed rock solid at 110 percenture. The jury is still piecing this puzzle together, as the inquest picks back up Tuesday, with Noah's family pushing for straight answers on those calls, and what really went down that week.