Lake skeleton identified as missing teen ‘Happy’ Kelly

A MURDER investigation was launched by gardaí in Clare and Limerick last night after DNA tests showed that the skeleton found in a lake in Co Clare over a week ago was that of Richard “Happy” Kelly.

It is the third murder investigation gardaí in the Roxboro district have begun investigating in just over two weeks. Gardaí are investigating the murders of Jeffrey Hennan, 19, and retired army corporal Stephen O’Grady, 45, who died as a result of vicious assaults in Southill and Ballinacurra Weston.

Richard Kelly, 17, was last seen alive in April 2006 and it was feared that he was abducted by a drugs gang in Southill where he lived with his mother Mary.