WHEN Brian Rossiter missed the bus from Clonmel to Wexford on a September Sunday afternoon in 2002, nobody knew that a few days later he would be lying dead in a Cork hospital after a chain of events which still remain shrouded in mystery.

A FRIEND of Brian Rossiter yesterday told an inquest into the 14-year- old’s death that he was hit “a few slaps” by more than one garda after being arrested on the night of September 10, 2002.

The inquest into the death of Brian Rossiter has heard his father was told by a detective garda that his 14-year-old son had taken 15 or 16 ecstasy tablets.

A FRIEND of 14-year-old Brian Rossiter who died two days after falling unconscious in Clonmel Garda Station said gardaí got him to try and wake Brian in his police cell on the morning after both were arrested.

A WOMAN who saw Brian Rossiter being arrested on the night before he fell into a coma said in her statement after the incident that “the gardaí did not hit anyone” when the arrests were being made.