John Sweetman

Frank told Gardaí that in the O'Hara family, two days without contact simply didn't happen.

Anne had asked her husband to drive over to the Shangana Park area to check for Elaine's light blue Fiat Punto near the cemetery, thinking maybe she'd gone back there.

Frank called Elaine's brother John at work and asked him to go too.

When the men arrived at Shangana Park, they found her car parked along the avenue leading up to the cemetery car park.

The doors were locked.

They called the AA to gain access to the car.

Inside they found her driver's license and LeapCard, cigarettes and a lighter, shopping bags and receipts.

There was a sat-nav and in the glove box they found a Nokia phone charger.

This struck them as odd.

Elaine had an iPhone.

Frank, Anne and Sheila joined them and they broke up to start searching the 110 acres that make up the parkland and cemetery.

Their first thought was that she had possibly returned alone to her mother's grave and had been grabbed by someone.

The cemetery is enormous, the final resting place of over 16,000 people.

The fact it is accessible by car and you can drive through the whole place made them uneasy at the thought that she'd come to harm at the hands of someone.

But there was another thing, something else weighing heavily on everyone's minds, initially unspoken.

The whole family knew Elaine had been struggling and recently suicidal.

Everyone was thinking the same thing but it wasn't said aloud.

They were worried.

Elaine might have taken her own life.

They searched everywhere, from the dog park, through the football pitches and over the railway bridge that leads further east to the beach.