A 26-YEAR-OLD man has pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of a Co Louth teenager whose body was dismembered in a killing linked to a drugs feud.
Keane Mulready-Woods, a 17-year-old from Drogheda, was murdered in January 2020 before his remains were dismembered.
Paul Crosby from Rathmullen Park in Drogheda pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder of the teenager, whose body parts were found in Dublin and Louth.
Crosby, who was one of the main targets of Operation Stratus, the Garda operation set up to target the ongoing Drogheda feud between two criminal gangs, was remanded in custody for sentencing in January.
Keane Mulready-Woods was on bail and subject to a curfew when he went missing in January 2020.
His mother reported his disappearance to gardaí on January 13 when he did not come home the night before.
The teenager was murdered in a house in Rathmullen Park in Drogheda.
Some of Keane's remains were discovered in a sports bag in Coolock in north Dublin the following day. Two days later more remains were discovered in a stolen car found ablaze in Dublin's north inner city. Further remains were found at a location in Rathmullen Park. His cause of death is unknown.
Crosby and co-accused Gerard Cruise (47) were charged with the teenager's murder and appeared before the Special Criminal Court. Crosby pleaded guilty to the charge that between January 11 and 13 2020, with knowledge of the existence of a criminal organisation, he facilitated the murder of Keane.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt remanded Crosby in custody for sentencing, which is scheduled for January 23.
Mr Cruise was remanded in custody until January 13.
Following Crosby's plea, Mr Cruise's defence counsel, Bernard Condon, told the court his client would be "doing likewise" next month.