The Last Image of Trevor Deely Was at 4:14 AM. He Was Nine Minutes From Home. | MMA | Part 1
He was nine minutes from home. A man in dark clothing had been standing outside his office for 34 minutes before he got there. That was December 8, 2000. Trevor Deely has never been found.
Trevor Deely was 22 years old, working at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management office in Dublin. On the night of December 7, 2000, he attended his office Christmas party — drinks on Harcourt Street, dinner at the Hilton, on to a nightclub on Lower Leeson Street. Two things made the walk home that night different from any other night: it was a Thursday, not a Friday, so the streets were quieter than usual, and Dublin's taxi drivers were on strike. Everyone who would normally have flagged a cab was walking. Trevor was walking.
At 3:35 AM, he stopped at the rear entrance of his office on Wilton Terrace to collect an umbrella. CCTV footage, digitally enhanced years later, shows a man dressed entirely in black had been standing outside that entrance since 3:00 AM — 34 minutes in the rain before Trevor arrived. The man approached Trevor at the gate. They spoke briefly. Trevor went inside alone, came out alone, and walked toward home. At 4:14:21 AM, a CCTV camera at the AIB ATM on the corner of Haddington Road and Baggot Street Bridge captured him walking past — umbrella in hand, slightly unsteady, nine minutes from his flat in Ballsbridge. Thirty-four seconds later, the same camera captured a dark figure walking in the same direction.
That is the last confirmed record of Trevor Deely.
The man who waited outside his office for 34 minutes has never been identified. Twenty-six years of public appeals, a formal reopening of the investigation, and a 2023 development that turned out to be a dead end. The man in black remains the central unresolved thread in one of Ireland's most enduring missing persons cases. Part 2 covers what the investigation found — and what it didn't.
ECHO 1953 - THE HOLLIS FILES, BOOK ONE
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Trevor Deely was 22 years old, working at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management office in Dublin. On the night of December 7, 2000, he attended his office Christmas party — drinks on Harcourt Street, dinner at the Hilton, on to a nightclub on Lower Leeson Street. Two things made the walk home that night different from any other night: it was a Thursday, not a Friday, so the streets were quieter than usual, and Dublin's taxi drivers were on strike. Everyone who would normally have flagged a cab was walking. Trevor was walking.
At 3:35 AM, he stopped at the rear entrance of his office on Wilton Terrace to collect an umbrella. CCTV footage, digitally enhanced years later, shows a man dressed entirely in black had been standing outside that entrance since 3:00 AM — 34 minutes in the rain before Trevor arrived. The man approached Trevor at the gate. They spoke briefly. Trevor went inside alone, came out alone, and walked toward home. At 4:14:21 AM, a CCTV camera at the AIB ATM on the corner of Haddington Road and Baggot Street Bridge captured him walking past — umbrella in hand, slightly unsteady, nine minutes from his flat in Ballsbridge. Thirty-four seconds later, the same camera captured a dark figure walking in the same direction.
That is the last confirmed record of Trevor Deely.
The man who waited outside his office for 34 minutes has never been identified. Twenty-six years of public appeals, a formal reopening of the investigation, and a 2023 development that turned out to be a dead end. The man in black remains the central unresolved thread in one of Ireland's most enduring missing persons cases. Part 2 covers what the investigation found — and what it didn't.
ECHO 1953 - THE HOLLIS FILES, BOOK ONE
Available now on Amazon - Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback.
Order your copy today.
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