Search for missing man in south Kerry called off

The search in a remote area of south Kerry for a man missing for 25 years has been called off, but the investigation into his disappearance continues, a senior garda said.

Charles Brooke Pickard, a 43-year-old married father of four, has been missing since his abduction on the coast by a number of masked, armed men in South Kerry a quarter of a century ago.

Clearance and excavation work began at first light on September 14 on a site, approximately 40 sq m, in a forest clearing at Derrenageeha near the high mountain pass of Ballaghisheen near where Mr Pickard’s van was found burnt out in May 1991.