Missing man’s family seek Dutch police probe

THE family of an Irishman who went missing in the Netherlands three years ago want the Dutch courts to force a full police investigation into his disappearance.

James Patrick Grealis, a carpenter from Co Mayo, vanished without trace after leaving a guesthouse to look for work in October 2008.

The 24-year-old single man, described as “happy and always in contact with home” before his disappearance, was last seen in the town of Breda, in the southern Dutch province of Brabant, where he had recently moved, working as a carpenter on building projects, intending to follow up some “job leads”.