DNA test on body aims to prove millionaire claim

THE body of a man who died in 1966 was exhumed early today in a bid to prove his grandson is the heir to a multi-million dollar fortune.

The remains of Jeremiah O’Regan were removed from a plot in St Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork, and a tiny sliver of bone was taken from the body by an US-based forensic anthropologist.

Dr Karen Burns, a leading DNA expert in the State of Georgia, will compare the results with that of the body of Jeremiah O’Regan’s sister, Ellen, which was exhumed from a cemetery in Savannah on January 16.