Cut up, wrapped up and dumped in the canal

THE discovery of a body that appears to have been carefully cut up, wrapped in material, then transported to the Royal Canal to be dumped reveals a new level of underworld brutality.

Detectives now involved in a major murder investigation face a difficult task tracking down the killers - not least because first they have to identity the man, then identify the scene of the murder.

The two canals that cut through south and north Dublin have been used before as a dumping ground for bodies, most notoriously for that of Romanian Adrian Bestea.