A DUBLIN County Coroner was “biased” in the conduct of an inquest that resulted in a jury finding that an unidentified dead baby which was found in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire in 1973 was the child of Cynthia Owen, the High Court was told yesterday.

A woman who defrauded the Department of Social Welfare of nearly £40,000 over a seven-year period has been ordered to do 150 hours community service by Judge Elizabeth Dunne.