Charges over hospital deaths ‘may still follow’

GARDAÍ have not yet ruled out the possibility of criminal charges in their investigation into the deaths of two patients at Naas General Hospital.

And they insist they may still have to carry out an exhumation of the remains of a second person if tests carried out on the remains of the first man exhumed almost two months ago point to anything suspicious.

A Garda spokesman yesterday said detectives were still waiting for the results of toxicology tests carried out on the body of 77-year-old John Gethings from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow.