Castlederg

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In August 1994, in the town of Castlederg, Northern Ireland, 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson went out to a disco and never came home.

I just wished I had said, no, I need to go, please don't go.

The last person to see Arlene was 50-year-old Robert Howard.

When questioned, Howard, who at the time was on bail for the rape and imprisonment of another teenager, denied all knowledge of her whereabouts.

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one stage he was saying that he had left her off at a local pub, but that doesn't make any sense, leaving a young girl in Castlederg at that time.

The thing to do for a man of that age with a child in the car is to make sure that she was left at the door of an appropriate adult, and he didn't do that because what he said, of course, was a complete pack of lies.

[suspenseful music] In August 1994, in the town of Castlederg, Northern Ireland, 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson went out to a disco and never came home.

I just wished I had've said, "No, Arlene, don't go.

Please don't go." But I didn't, no.

That marriage was never gonna be anything but abusive.

Probably that was simply to trap her as this ever-present victim.

After the marriage broke down, Howard settled in Castlederg, a small town in County Tyrone, near the Irish border.

He did have a period of time where he was living in a caravan.

There's an allegation of a case whereby he kept a lady, uh, captive.

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In August 1994, in the town of Castlederg, Northern Ireland, 15-year-old Arlene Arkinson went out to a disco and never came home.

I just wished I had.

I said, no, Arlene, don't go.

When questioned, Howard, who at the time was on bail for the rape and imprisonment of another teenager, denied all knowledge of her whereabouts.

The one stage he was saying

that he had left her off at a local pub, but that doesn't make any sense, leaving a young girl in Castlederg at that time.

The thing to do for a man of that age with a child in the car is to make sure that she was left at the door of an appropriate adult, and he didn't do that because what he said, of course, was a complete pack of lies.

And apart from Ground Kilalla-

... and Castlebar, you know, it, it didn't really materialize.

But, but going back, so 1796-