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Niall O'Connor

Gardai found searches for child abuse and images of schoolgirl being tied up on Boy A's phones

Zombie mask killer Boy A had a sick interest in violent porn which included searches for child abuse and women being forced to have sex with animals.

Cops even found the teenage thug had downloaded images of a tied-up schoolgirl in uniform being abused.

The sicko also searched for “horse f***s girl, horse porn, animal porn, cute teen f***ed hard".

Gardai hunting for evidence after schoolgirl Ana Kriegel’s murder carried out searches in the homes of Boy A and Boy B.

With Boy A they found two devices, an Alcatel handset and iPhone, they then handed that over to a forensic expert who examined the contents.

Boy B repeatedly lost his mobile phones and other devices.

Tragic Ana Kriegel (RTE)

What they found was that warped Boy A had a fascination with searching for violent pornography.

It may give an insight into the mind of the young teen who organised and carried out one of the most horrific crimes in modern Irish history.

Gardai downloaded more than 5,000 files from two mobile phones found inside the then 13-year-old killer’s house.

An expert uncovered these files were pornographic images of violence against children and women.

The search history evidence on those phones was not included in the trial as the judge believed it would “unbalance” the jury’s deliberations.

But now the Irish Mirror can reveal:

  • Boy A searched for child porn, darkweb and horse porn
  • Of 5,001 files on one phone a vast amount were pornographic with some depicting violence
  • Boy A downloaded images of a tied-up school girl in uniform being abused, and
  • In one search he typed “Anastasia has the perfect body for f%&king”.

The horrific internet trawl was found to have taken place in November 2017 but there were also searches for graphic material in January and February of 2018.

Ana Kriegel (RTE News)
DI Mark O'Neill (second from right) and gardai at the scene at a derelict house and farmyard on the Clonee Road, Lucan where Ana Kriegel's body was found (Collins)

That was six months before Boy A and Boy B carried out the plot to kill Ana.

In other internet history downloaded from a phone owned by Boy A they found images of a man hitting a “homemade weapon” off blocks.

The trial heard there was evidence Boy A had made a zombie-style home made mask.

The garda expert found he had repeatedly searched and viewed images of a man wearing a white mask. The jury did hear Boy A had looked at abandoned places around Lucan, Co Dublin, online but also searched gruesome ways to die.

As the searches progressed he then searched “horse f***s girl, horse porn, animal porn, cute teen f***ed hard.”

In one piece of evidence regarding Ana the court heard she had tied herself to a chair in a prank to get noticed by a boy she was interested in.

Boy A was also searching for exactly the same imagery of women bound to poles and chairs. As time went by he was moving closer to selecting his target and searched for “Teen sweet Russian”.

Anastasia was originally from Russia but had been adopted and moved to Ireland as an infant.

On an iPhone examined by gardai they found 7,485 images in the images folder.

The vast amount were porn themed, including animation and Hentai – a subgenre of the Japanese cartoons of manga and anime.

It is characterised by overtly sexualised characters and sexually explicit images and plots. The Garda examination waded through the pornography and found 42 images on this phone that they believed were of evidential importance.

Boy A’s interest in weapons and masks continued also and in August 15, 2017, there was a video of a male person wearing a white home-made mask.

This man was holding a piece of wood with metal surround and handle.

The weapon video, taken by a second unidentified boy, showed the boy in an outdoors setting.

He is holding a homemade weapon – the masked boy strikes it off a cement block.

Both boys then examine the damage to the weapon and to the block.

In January, four months before the murder, Boy A googled “abandoned places in Lucan” in January 2018.

Glenwood House, Clonee Road, Laraghcan, Lucan - where Ana Kriegel's body was found - pictured on the afternoon two teenage boys were found guilty of her murder (Collins)

On May 21, 2018, he searched for St Catherine’s Park. Ana’s body was discovered on May 17, before the arrest of both boys by investigators.

In other finds gardai discovered a disturbing drawing in Boy A’s room titled “Nightcrawler”.

It had an emaciated body with a skeleton visible.

There was a head on the drawing that may or may not be human with a large number of teeth open, a red tongue and what appears to be bandaging across the top of the head.

A number of other items
were found over the next couple of pages.

The words “Just kill them” “just do it” or “just fu***ng do it” scrawled underneath with painting of a stabbing and a hangman’s noose.

Nightcrawler is a character in comic books but it is not known if this is the same reference.

Gardai found a mask of a zombie style-face mask that bore a striking similarity to the cartoon characters.

Details on the Kriegel case with crime editor Niall O'Connor
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