Man admits to cleaning up and removing evidence from Kean Mulready Woods murder scene

Gerard McKenna was due to go on trial on January 17, 2022

Kean Mulready Woods was last seen alive in Drogheda on January 12, 2020. File picture

A 52-year-old man has pleaded guilty to cleaning up and removing evidence from the scene where Drogheda teenager Kean Mulready Woods was murdered last year.

Gerard McKenna of Rathmullen Park, Drogheda, Co. Louth, was charged in February 2020 with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of another person in relation to the 17-year-old's murder in January 2020. Mr Mulready Woods, from Drogheda, was last seen alive in the town on January 12, 2020.