Father seeking investigation into son's death

THE father of recovering heroin addict Derek Cooper, who was found dead in a toilet of a hostel above an Amsterdam Irish pub with morphine in his pocket and a syringe beside him, says there was blood on his clothes and all over the cubicle.

The Amsterdam police rule out murder and claim the 25-year-old died of an overdose upstairs from Durty Nellies, one of the city's most famous and popular Irish pubs. His father Brian however believes the death was suspicious but that there was no investigation.

"There was no postmortem, no blood tests, simply no investigation," said the Galway-based father.