Coroner’s open verdict on cause of pilgrim’s death

THE husband of an Irish pilgrim whose body was found several months after she went missing in Medjugorje has said he was not surprised that the authorities in Bosnia and Ireland were unable to determine the cause of her death.

Stephen Brady made his remarks after the Dublin County Coroner’s Court yesterday returned an open verdict at the inquest into the death of his wife, Winifred (Winnie), 59, of Millbrook Avenue, Kilbarrack, in Dublin.

The mother of five was reported missing on September 6 last while on a pilgrimage to Bosnia- Herzegovina with a group of friends. Her body was not discovered until four months later by a hunter on a remote hillside.