As the family of Noah Donohoe mark the third anniversary of his disappearance and death, they still await an inquest and the answers it may provide.
Noah set out from his south Belfast home on Sunday June 21 2020 to meet friends on the other side of the city to work on a project for their Duke of Edinburgh award.
The 14-year-old was cycling to Cave Hill country park but when he did not arrive his worried friends raised the alarm.
Police say Noah left home on Fitzroy Avenue at around 5.30pm and was spotted on Ormeau Avenue 15 minutes later, followed by a sighting in Royal Avenue as he cycled in the direction of York Street in north Belfast.
Shortly before 6pm a boy matching his description was seen falling off his bike in the North Queen Street area of north Belfast.
He was then spotted on Limestone Road before a last confirmed sighting in Northwood Road at around 6.11pm.
The story of the boy who never came home touched people's hearts and the public came in droves to help search for Noah.
His body was found six days later in a storm drain in north Belfast wearing few clothes and with none of his belongings. A postmortem determined he had drowned.
Noah's family have not been told if the teenager, who was a St Malachy's College pupil, suffered any head injury prior to his death, despite speculation that he may have had concussion from a fall.
In the last reported sighting of Noah, he was described as riding his bike, naked, along Northwood Road, which is close to the Shore Road in the north of the city.
Northwood Road resident Linda Patterson saw Noah cycle past her house that Sunday evening.
She said: "I was sitting in the living room. Quite a few people saw him, but they just saw him from the waist up and didn't think anything of it."
Ms Patterson said her and her husband looked out again, but this time could only see Noah's black Apollo mountain bike on the ground but no sign of the teenager.
"It was so quick. It was just a flash going past. By the time I got out to look, he was gone".
The entrance to the storm drain where Noah was found is behind Northwood Road
Police have ruled out foul play in Noah's death. His mother, Fiona Donohue, is leading a campaign for answers to questions she has surrounding her son’s disappearance and death.
A number of items of clothing and belongings, including his laptop and rucksack, were missing when Noah's body was found and his family do not know why he entered the drain in the first place.
Daryl Paul and Maria Nolan were both convicted of handling stolen goods when they were caught trying to pawn Noah's laptop in a Belfast city centre Cash Converters.
The court heard Paul had taken the rucksack and its contents home with him after finding them in Belfast on the day Noah vanished.
Police investigation
There are issues around the disclosure of police materials relating to the PSNI investigation into Noah's death.
There have been three complaints filed with the Police Ombudsman over claims that a PSNI source leaked sensitive case files to social media.
The inquest into the 14-year-old's death was due to begin last year but the family's successful application for a jury pushed the date back.
However, it was delayed further earlier this month over issues relating to CCTV footage around his home and forensic toxicology reports.
There has also been controversy over redaction in some documents, for which the police received a public interest immunity (PII) certificate.
When authorizing the PII certificate, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the time, Shailesh Vara, referenced the "continuing threat from terrorism in Northern Ireland, particularly from dissident republicans, and the role that security and intelligence agencies play in countering this threat".
The PII certificate, which Fiona Donohoe opposed, was then ratified in the High Court of Justice.
The court ruling on the PII certificate application said: "There is no suggestion that dissident republicans were involved in the death of Noah Donohoe, but rather that the disclosure of certain information would be valuable to them, and their ilk, in understanding the measures taken by those tasked with counter terrorism activities".
Mr Justice Michael Humphreys, the presiding coroner of the case, but not the inquest, ruled there was no evidence of a cover-up by the PSNI in the redaction of the reports.
The Noah Donohoe Foundation
Noah's family has set up the Noah Donohoe Foundation to support children across Northern Ireland.
As part of the Donohoe family's campaign, numerous celebrities have shown their support, including boxers Carl Frampton and David Haye and actor Eugene O'Hare.
There have also been multiple rallies and blue hearts along with Noah's name have been painted on stones and left around the north.
Fiona Donohue continues to agitate for answers about her son's disappearance.
A few months after his death, she approached investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre.
Days ago, new CCTV footage of Noah was made public. It appears to show the 14-year-old leaving his home in the early hours of the morning of his disappearance.
Footage from 3.30am reportedly shows the teenager leaving the flat wearing a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops and carrying headphones. It was raining.
"I haven’t seen the footage; it is simply too distressing, but my legal team has, and it is shocking and truly concerning. We still have no idea where he was going, if he was meeting anyone or what was the purpose of the trip,” Ms Donohoe told Donal McIntyre.
A clip from half an hour later shows him returning home, soaking wet and without his headphones or flip-flops.
Ms Donohoe continued: “In the week while Noah was missing, PSNI officers asked me ‘if Noah could have snuck out’ at any time from the apartments without my knowledge.
"I told them that there was one key, and all the doors are very squeaky, and I would not have thought it likely – but obviously I was wrong’.”
Today it was confirmed that a crowdfunder for Donal McIntyre's investigative documentary about Noah's death has raised over £56,000 in three days.
