Gardaí bid to identify man’s body found in locked train toilet

GARDAÍ were last night trying to establish the identify a body which was found locked in the toilet of a train yesterday.

The grim discovery was made by Iarnród Eireann workers on board the 9pm train from Dublin which pulled in to Cork’s Kent Station just after midnight yesterday.

Train cleaning staff, who were unable to open a toilet door on one of the carriages after passengers left, alerted the station controller.

He boarded the train and managed to open the door to find the body of a man slumped inside.

Gardaí and emergency services were called to the scene immediately and the body was removed to Cork University Hospital.

Foul play is not suspected. It is understood the man, who had a syringe stuck in one of his arms, may have died from a drug overdose.

However a garda spokesman declined to comment on the details until the results of a post mortem are known.

The man, who gardaí believe was may have been in his 30s, was not carrying any form of identification.

They declined to release any more details surrounding the discovery.

Iarnród Eireann spokesman Andrew Roche also declined to comment on the details but he said it was the first time such an incident occurred in Cork.

Detectives examined the train carriage early yesterday before it departed at 5.15am for Dublin.

They were also trying to trace the man’s last known movements in Dublin before he boarded the train.

CCTV footage from train stations in Dublin is expected to be examined in a bid to identify him.