New document links paedophile DJ Eamon Cooke to witness account in case of missing Philip Cairns

Eamon Cooke was dying in a hospice when the witness gave her statement. He was questioned by gardaí but made no confession. He passed away two weeks later

Paedophile DJ Eamon Cooke was living close to missing teenager Philip Cairns in the weeks before the 13-year-old disappeared in 1986, according to a newly discovered document.

Convicted paedophile DJ Eamon Cooke was living close to missing teenager Philip Cairns in the weeks before the 13-year-old disappeared in 1986, according to a newly discovered document.

The document supports an account given to gardaí by a witness in 2016, who claimed she was in a car with Cooke that left an address in Tallaght and travelled towards Ballyroan in Rathfarnham, where a boy later got into the vehicle.