Ian Clenahan
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112 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Sea of Lies from Uncover · S32 E7: Plausible, Intelligent and Ruthless | Sea of Lies · 27 Feb 2025
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He's on trial for murder, not for anything else.
Someone Knows Something · Someone Knows Something Introduces | Uncover: Sea of Lies · 27 Jan 2025
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My name's Ian Clenahan. I was the original officer who was allocated the investigation initially when the body was brought to shore.
It was one of my first jobs that I picked up, yeah. It came through that a body had been trawled up and could I go down to commence investigations into trying to find out who he was and the circumstances behind it.
There was nothing that kind of smacked me in the face as being, this is suspicious. He had the watch on, so that would kind of rule out a robbery. There was a cut on his head. But when you consider what he's just been through, he's been dragged along, you know, the bottom of a seabed. And he was fairly clean other than that. There was no signs of him being involved in an altercation.
You know, his shirt was tucked into his trousers. It was all, he was all neat. So you think, OK, well, I don't know what the cause of death is, so that will be ascertained in due course.
Because obviously that would be a case as well if your husband or brother, son, whatever, never came home.
Well, old-fashioned detective work. So you start by going through all the missing persons listed in the Devon and Cornwall police, and you try and rule those out, and then you go further afield, and you look at missing persons in the south-west, then you go further afield and look at missing persons in the south.
This is the description of the guy, this is what he was wearing.
Has anyone got any information that may help us identify the man?
But no, we didn't get anything, so it was never going to be easy. We contacted ferries.
To see whether there's any reports of any fishermen being lost at sea.
Everything was coming to a dead end, really.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, isn't it? You're trying to find one name.
It's unusual if we don't identify them. There's not many that go unidentified. We were fairly close to just saying, well, we can't. So let's just like make arrangements for the body to be cremated or buried or whatever they were going to do with it as an unknown person.
I was making a cup of tea, and I can always remember it, and the kettle was there next to a desk. My phone rings, and you've got one of those phones where you can star-star-zero to pick up a phone that's ringing, and it was him. And he started to talk to me.
I mean, you know, he was a mate. He was a really good friend of his.
So I grabbed a piece of paper that was nearby and I couldn't even find a pen. So I grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and I started writing what he told me.
I can always remember Exhibit IDC7 was that piece of paper.
He said to me that Ron had left England to travel to France to start up a TV repair business in France.
He was a successful American businessman who had a lot of money and his mate Ron didn't have much at all. I mean, we weren't talking about a lot of money. I've got two and a half thousand pound in my head, which is a nice sum of money, I suppose. But it's not a world-shattering, life-changing sum of money.
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