The trial of two teenage boys for the murder of 14-year-old Anastasia Kriégel almost a year ago has heard one of the boys told gardaí he last saw her in a park at 5.40pm on the day she went missing.
However, the trial heard there was a significant variation between the route he showed gardaí he had taken with Ana in the park, and the route shown to gardaí later by both boys.
The two 14-year-old boys deny murdering the schoolgirl on 14 May 2018. Her body was found in a derelict house in Lucan three days later. One of them also denies violently sexually assaulting her.
Garda Conor Muldoon, of Leixlip Garda Station, told the court Ana Kriégel's parents reported her missing at around 9.15pm on 14 May 2018.
They said it was out of character for her not to answer phone calls and her mother was concerned. They told him that one of the accused boys - Boy B - had called to her home at 5pm that evening and she had left with him.
Garda Muldoon told the court he and another garda went to the house of this boy at around 10.45pm and spoke to him in the presence of his mother.
He said he had gone with Ana to St Catherine's Park. He said they briefly spoke there and turned back towards home, going in separate directions.
He said he last saw her at 5.40pm at the park. He said he did not know her very well and did not mention the other accused boy at all, the court heard.
Sergeant John Dunne told the court he went to the same boy's house the following day as Ana had not returned. This time Boy B said he had called to Ana's house on behalf of his friend, Boy A - the other accused in this case.
He said Ana was fond of him but Boy A was not interested in having a relationship with her and the meeting had been arranged to let her know he was not interested.
He told the sergeant he and Ana met Boy A in the park, where Boy A and Ana had a conversation and then they all went home.
Sgt Dunne said Boy B then went with him to walk the route in St Catherine's Park he said he had taken with Ana.
He pointed out where he had met Boy A and where he had last seen Ana. Then he said they all left and pointed out the different directions they had taken.
Sgt Dunne said he went back to the park later that day with Boy B and his friend Boy A, along with Boy A's father.
He said at first there was a small variation in the route the boys took compared with the route Boy B had first pointed out.
They reached a point where Boy B said he had stopped and gone no further. The sergeant said Boy A glanced at his friend when he said this.
Another garda carried on with Boy A while Sgt Dunne waited with Boy B.
Sgt Dunne said there was a very obvious interaction between the two boys and the look was observed by his colleague as well.
The court heard the gardaí decided statements were required from both boys to clarify the route as there was a difference between them and the route had significantly changed from his initial walk with Boy B.
He took a statement from Boy B, which the boy confirmed was correct.
Sgt Dunne also told the court he had gone to Ana's house where his mother showed him her bedroom, and showed him holes in the bedroom door - created by Ana when she was angry.
He said Geraldine Kriégel told him she had found a condom in her bedroom the previous week, but did not believe she was sexually active.
She told him her daughter had changed since she hit puberty and had become a handful.
Ana's mother 'terrified' when no response to texts
Earlier, the court heard Ana's mother was "immediately concerned" when she found out she had left her home with one of the boys now accused of her murder.
She said she was "terrified" when her daughter did not respond to texts.
Mrs Kriégel told the court she got home from work at around 5.20pm on 14 May, 2018. Her husband told her Ana had left the house with one of the boys on trial for her murder, Boy B, who was 13 at the time.
Mrs Kriégel said she was immediately concerned, because Ana had no friends, and no one called for her and she was not aware that she had anything to do with Boy B.
She said she was worried because it was so unusual. She texted Ana and told her to get home and texted her again to tell her to answer her or she would call the police.
She said Ana was someone who would always respond to a text or call even to tell her she was not going to respond - and they would talk to each other regularly.
The fact that she had not responded, raised serious alarm bells, she said.
She told the court she was feeling like she was a paranoid, overprotective mother and then feeling terrified.
Mrs Kriégel went out looking for Ana but could not see her anywhere. It was clear Ana had not planned to be out of the house for long because she had not taken money or her headphones, which she wore everywhere.
By 8.40pm that evening, Mrs Kriégel contacted a neighbour who was a retired detective and he told her to go to gardaí right away.
She and her husband reported Ana missing at around 9pm.
The next day, Mrs Kriégel searched the nearby St Catherine's Park again for her daughter. She said she saw gardaí in the park accompanied by Boy B and another boy she had never seen before, who was limping really badly.
She became emotional briefly as she agreed she had been told on Thursday 17 May by gardaí that a girl's body had been found in a derelict house in Lucan.
She said she and her husband identified Ana's body the next day.
The court heard Ana was last seen online on the WhatsApp messaging service at 5.13pm on 14 May and there was a call from her phone to her mother's office at 5.20pm that day.
Under cross-examination by Senior Counsel Patrick Gageby for Boy A, Mrs Kriégel agreed her daughter had an active media presence and enjoyed making YouTube videos.
She did not know when an odd photograph of her daughter bound up was taken - she thought it was earlier than 6 May, 2018.
She agreed it was part of a joke with Ana and a friend to portray her as a "damsel in distress" and see if there would be a favourable response from another boy.
Mrs Kriégel said there had been some issues with Ana in the month or two before she disappeared and there had been four half-day suspensions.
She said times were hard for Ana. She disagreed that her daughter's impulse control was not as it should be and said she was in control of it reasonably well.
She said Ana could get angry but would not hurt a fly, although she might throw a few pillows around the room. It was suggested to her that she get a punchbag to absorb that energy. Mrs Kriégel said she was not hugely concerned about it.
She agreed that she had told gardaí a week before her disappearance that she had found a condom under Ana's pillow.
Mrs Kriégel said her daughter was very immature emotionally, she looked so much older but was far younger than her years.
She did not have particular friends, she told the court, but craved friendship and was always trying to make friends.
She said Ana was really happy at home but needed a friend of her own age.
