‘He makes a living driving a taxi but his main hobby, and that too of Jana, is playing poker. Pic: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ieĭavid, who left his property management firm in Reykjavík to find his brother in Ireland, described Jon as ‘an amateur poker player’. Daniel and David Wiium hold a missing poster of their brother Jon Jonsson. Pic: An Garda SiochanaĪlthough in a previous interview Mr Wiium said that he left the hotel room with a large sum of cash, he cleared up the confusion from a radio interview that Jon had ‘thousands on him’.Įxplaining how this referred to Icelandic króna, not euro, he told Extra.ie that the most he had on him was a ‘few hundred euro - enough to buy a couch or a hot tub, but no more.’Īlthough his brother had lost the poker game at the hotel on the previous night, David said that he was ‘in good spirits’ and was ‘not down’ when he retired to his room from the poker area at 5am after playing for around eight hours. The family of Jon Jonsson missing in Dublin will make a TV appeal tonight. its role is to open up all possibilities in the investigation and review all the information gathered to date.Speaking to Extra.ie about the search for his older brother, David said that he has watched footage of Jon playing cards the night before in the hotel, and there was ‘nothing out of the ordinary about his demeanour’. When the Cold Case Unit becomes involved in a case. 'So, to find out what happened to her really would be a great gift at this point. But I guess my greatest wish would be to be able to take her home and have a grave that I could go to.

I'm pretty sure, you know, that I'll never see her again. 'It's been a long time, such a very long time. She described Annie's disappearance as a 'terrible loss' and said she now just wants to get her daughter's body back. Speaking on Monday's 'Crimecall', Annie's mother Nancy confessed that she believes her daughter is dead. Mr Boucher Hayes was unable to expand on the developments but it is understood that gardaí are now hopeful of making a breakthrough in the 23-year investigation. He added: 'A large number of calls which have opened up significant lines of investigation'.

Speaking after the programme, host Philip Boucher Hayes said the appeal had generated a huge public reaction. The Garda Cold Case Unit has now taken over the probe and last night it was highlighted again on RTÉ's 'Crimecall' show. US student Annie McCarrick, vanished after a night out in Johnnie Fox's pub in Glencullen, Co Dublin, in March 1993. Gardai have opened 'significant lines of investigation' into one of Ireland's most high-profile missing women cases after a television appeal.

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