Michael Gaine: Man arrested on suspicion of murdering lacking farmer

A person has been arrested on suspicion of homicide by way of Irish police investigating the disappearance of farmer Michael Gaine.

It comes an afternoon after gardaí (Irish police) looking a web site close to Mr Gaine’s farm showed they’d discovered partial human stays.

Mr Gaine, 56, has been lacking for greater than 8 weeks. He was once to start with handled as a lacking individuals case prior to it was once upgraded to a murder on 29 April.

The guy, in his 50s, is being held in custody as searches and technical examinations on the web site close to Mr Gaine’s farm proceed.

On Saturday, gardaí stated DNA research could be performed at the human stays prior to they are able to be known.

Mr Gaine, a sheep and livestock farmer, was once reported lacking from his house close to Kenmare on Friday, 21 March. He was once ultimate noticed within the County Kerry the city yesterday.

He lived within the faraway Carrig East house shut the Molls Gap attractiveness spot alongside the famend Ring of Kerry.

Last month, Michael Gaine’s spouse Janice instructed Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he “loved his home, he loved his farm, he loved animals” including that his disappearance was once “totally out of character”.

Independent TD (member of the Irish parliament) for Kerry, Michael Healy-Rae, stated the local people in Kenmare desires solutions.

“We want to know, and the family want to know,” he instructed Irish nationwide broadcaster RTÉ.

“Mike was a very respectable, hardworking, genuine man, a great community person and a person that everybody liked.

“To suppose that anyone would have this kind of tournament occur to them, we are all horrified. We’re disenchanted.

“It is not something that we’re used to in any part of Ireland. But in this locality, we never had a situation like this before.”