Dalkey baby: family say coroner ‘biased’

A DUBLIN County Coroner was “biased” in the conduct of an inquest that resulted in a jury finding that an unidentified dead baby which was found in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire in 1973 was the child of Cynthia Owen, the High Court was told yesterday.

Ms Owen has claimed the baby was conceived following sexual abuse in her family home and was murdered.

A statement made by Ms Owen regarding the alleged birth of a baby in the family home in Dalkey, and of its subsequent murder and disposal by a family member, was “entirely untrue”, Ms Owen’s father and three of her sisters have claimed in proceedings aimed at quashing the inquest verdict.