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Jonathan McCambridge

Witness denies entering tunnel to prove Noah Donohoe could have got out

Northwood Park and Northwood Road in Belfast where schoolboy Noah Donohoe was last seen before his death in 2020 (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Wire)

A senior civil servant has denied that he entered a culvert five years after Noah Donohoe’s body was found in it in order to demonstrate the schoolboy could have exited the tunnel.

Jonathan McKee from the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), told Belfast Coroner’s Court that he had gone into the underground tunnel because he wanted to be “sure of the facts” whether someone would be able to get back out.

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