All we want to know is what happened that day, plead family

THE family of a young man found hanging in a garda cell told a coroner’s court they had been “ignored” by the Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice in their attempts to find out details of his death.

An inquest into the death of Terence Wheelock was adjourned for a fortnight yesterday without hearing evidence to allow for efforts to resolve legal wrangles between his family and the State.

Mr Wheelock, 20, from Summerhill in Dublin, spent three months in a coma before his death last September. He had been discovered unconscious in a cell at Store Street Garda Station in June after being detained on suspicion of involvement in a car theft.