Coroner requests exhumation of baby’s body

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has been asked to sign an order to allow for the exhumation of the body of a baby girl who was found stabbed to death in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire over 30 years ago.

Dublin County Coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty yesterday informed an inquest into the death of the unidentified baby girl that he had written to the minister last Friday to seek the exhumation of her body from the Little Angels Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Although the baby was never formally identified, a 44-year-old woman, Cynthia Owen, who comes originally from Dalkey, claims she was the baby’s mother.