Cops probe if hand-written note found in lock-up of dead paedo dubbed ‘The Cookie Monster’ is confession to notorious cold case murder
Discovery made after beast Eamon Cooke died in Irish hospice
COPS are probing whether a note left by a paedophile known as The Cookie Monster contains a confession to a notorious child murder.
Beast Eamon Cooke was jailed in 2007 for a string of sickening attacks in Ireland dating back to the 1970s.
The 79-year-old died in a hospice last month following his release.
And now it has been claimed a handwritten note discovered by a family member in a Dublin lock-up contains the phrase “sorry what I did to Philip” - which is thought to be a reference to a 13-year-old boy who disappeared three decades ago.
Cops in the Irish republic are now believed to be investigating the cold case after the note was passed on to them.
Philip Cairns vanished on the afternoon of October 23 1986 while walking back to school in south Dublin.
The case became one of the most high-profile in Irish history, but no trace of the child has ever been found.
A source close to the Cooke family told the that hundreds of video tapes, mini discs and documents were also discovered in Cooke's storage unit in West Dublin.
They said: “A member of his family came across one of his storage units and they were going through it and came across a letter that said ‘Sorry to Phillip for everything that happened’.
“It said Philip used to love maths and geography in school and how much he loved his trips to the radio station.
“He was saying ‘his son Philip’ in parts of the letter but he never had a son called Philip.
“It was written in 2004 or 2005. The second the person realised what it was they handed it over to gardai (Irish police).
“There was no address on it. It was just a handwritten note he wrote in prison.
"It’s believed he may have placed it in the storage unit after he was released after his first abuse case collapsed or when he was out on bail following the charges.
“The letter was found two days after the story came out about him being connected to Philip, a couple of days after he died.
“The storage unit in West Dublin was one of those 24-hour places. Everything that was in there was given to the gardai.
"There were also hundreds upon hundreds of video tapes, mini discs, voice recorders found that would take years to go through.
“He would have put stuff into it when he was released on bail or when he had his conviction overturned it’s believed.”
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