THE MOTHER OF a missing Dublin teenager has said she fears her daughter may have run away to be with her father – who was only recently released from prison after serving 10 years of a manslaughter sentence.

Michelle Doyle, 16, from Moyglass Road in Lucan, was last seen on March 14 on her way to the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

Michelle called home yesterday to confirm she was well, but is still unaccounted for.

And though her father, John, denies that Michelle is with him, her mother Jennifer told today’s Irish Daily Star that she was “95 per cent sure” that the two were together.

The paper’s Michael O’Toole reported that Gardaí also believed the pair were together.

“Her father has told me repeatedly that she is not with him, but I think it is most likely she is.

Doyle, originally from Fatima Mansions, was released from prison last month after serving ten years of a 12-year sentence for the manslaughter of Co Meath pensioner Patrick Logan.

Logan, 81, was at home with his brother listening to a GAA match on the radio when Doyle and his brother Christopher raided their house, beating the two of them and absconding with £45 in June 2000.

O’Toole writes that Doyle also had a conviction for beating a pensioner to death in 1984.

Read more from Michael O’Toole in today’s Star >