Owner says it was not his job to clean fish shop freezer

THE fish shop owner who discovered the frozen corpse of a man who went missing five years ago has said it wasn’t his job to clean the large freezer where the gruesome find was made.

Owner says it was not his job to clean fish shop freezer

Owner Ali, who would only give his first name, ran to gardaí when he uncovered the frozen limbs in the storage area behind the Mermaid Fish Shop. He was shocked and yesterday revealed he was not the only one to have entered the freezer area in recent years.

It is now almost certain Patrick McCormack, 52, was killed five years ago, say gardaí, who yesterday received post-mortem details revealing a serious injury to the man’s head from an assault caused his death.

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