One of butchered teen Keane Mulready-Woods' last calls was to his mother asking her to leave out money for a taxi, it has been reported.
The 17-year-old was to be stabbed and dismembered hours later in a killing that has shocked the nation.
It is understood Keane was abducted in the Ballsgrove area of Drogheda, Co Louth and taken to a house in Rathmullen Park where he was tortured, killed and cut apart.
The Narcos-style killers dumped his arms and legs in a holdall bag near a rival gangster’s home in Coolock, North Dublin on Monday night, January 13.
His head and hands were discovered in a burning car two days later.
Gardai believe the limbs were to be delivered to a rival gang boss as a warning, but they were dumped on the roadside in a panic after officers were spotted patrolling the area.
Speculation is also rife the child’s head was due to be delivered to a crime lord as a chilling message.
The Sunday Independent reports that Keane's last conversation with his mother was by phone just after 6pm on Sunday, January 12.
The teen was under curfew to be home before dark and he asked his mother to leave money on the mantelpiece to pay for a taxi fare, the paper reports.
He never made it home.
Keane's family reported him missing the next day.
One of his last sightings was at Dominic's Bridge in Drogheda at around 6pm on Sunday.
Today the Irish Sunday Mirror reports that gardai expect to arrest the barbaric killers in the next few days.
Detectives expect to swoop on the two thugs suspected of the gangland bloodbath once DNA from knives and machetes thought to have been used in the savage attack is analysed.
Officers searching the house in Rathmullen Park seized several large, blood-stained blades which are now being forensically examined.
