Gardaí fail to find body in hunt for missing criminal

A GARDA hunt for a missing criminal, suspected of being murdered, is at a standstill after searches near his burnt out car drew a blank.

Detectives are investigating theories that low-level criminal James Kenny McDonagh was abducted and murdered on the orders of a notorious crime boss from Ballyfermot, west Dublin.

Mr McDonagh, 28, from Kilmainham, in the south inner city, was last seen in nearby Bluebell last Wednesday week.