Cell death: family to fund forensic tests

THE family of 20-year-old Terence Wheelock yesterday said they would raise funds themselves to pay for an independent forensic examination after the Government turned them down.

Mr Wheelock, from Summerhill, in Dublin, was found unconscious in a cell at Store Street Garda Station last June after apparently attempting to hang himself with a cord from his tracksuit bottoms. He was brought to the Mater Hospital but never regained consciousness and died on September 16, 2005.

His family has questioned the circumstances of his death and claims he was mistreated while in custody.