Ambassador flies out to sort Tristan case

THE Irish ambassador to Indonesia is set to travel to Jakarta to meet officials investigating the adoption of Tristan Dowse by an Irish man and his wife.

The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday that Mr Hugh Swift is due to travel from his base in Singapore in the coming days to try and resolve the legal issues.

While there he will also visit the orphanage in Jakarta where the three-year-old has been cared for since his adoptive parents, Joe and Lala Dowse, returned him after claiming the adoption was not working out. The boy was just two-months-old when he was adopted.