Name: Dean Roche
Case Classification: Endangered missing
Missing Since: March 22, 2015
Location Last Seen: Ballyfoyle, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Date of Birth: October 18, 1983
Age: 31 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: Slight build
Hair Color: Brown, short
Eye Color: Green
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Black zip up tracksuit top and bottoms with white runners
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Dean, from Hebron Park, Kilkenny lived here with his mother. On that Sunday morning, he left the house and told his mother he was going to be buying a car and would see her later. Dean travelled to the Ballyfoyle area of Kilkenny by a taxi where he purchased a car at approximately 7pm. This vehicle was found crashed short distance away. Witnesses in Newpark, Ballyfoyle area describe seeing Dean at 9pm that evening. That is the last confirmed sighting of Dean. Dean spoke to a number of locals after the crash and his last known sighting was at approximately 9.15pm when he left through the side of a house which led into a nearby field. This is a rural part of County Kilkenny and Gardaí have searched a vast amount of the Ballyfoyle area with assistance from the Army and Regional support Units.
A number of searches have been carried out with the assistance of the Garda Search Unit, Garda Dog Unit, Garda Water Unit and the Army. A red Manchester United woollen hat, believed to be Dean’s was found during the searches.
Dad-of-one Dean moved back in with his mother in Hebron Park on the outskirts of Kilkenny city after separating from the mother of his 10-year-old son. When he left the house he told his mother he would be back in half an hour. The taxi driver who drove him that night said Dean was in great humour.
Dean is described as being five foot eight inches in height, of slight build with green eyes and short brown hair. He was wearing a black zip up tracksuit top and bottoms with white runners. Gardaí are appealing to Farmers in the Ballyfoyle area to check their farm houses and lands to assist in the search for Dean.
Agency Name: Kilkenny Garda Station
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: +353 56 777 5000
Agency E-Mail: Contact form
Agency Case Number: N/A
Agency Name: Garda Missing Persons Unit
Agency Contact Person: Sergeant Carmel Griffin
Agency Phone Number: +353 1 666 9476
Agency E-Mail: missing_persons@garda.ie
Agency Case Number: N/A
Added: 2/6/22; Last Updated: 2/6/22 - By: Admin
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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