Family pleads for exhumation of unidentified body

THE Justice Department yesterday refused to be drawn on a request to exhume an unidentified grave in Wexford believed to be the burial place of missing woman Priscilla Clarke.

Yesterday, the department said it would not comment on individual cases despite a public appeal by the family of Ms Clarke for the necessary exhumation order.

The unidentified woman’s body was buried in Crosstown Cemetery in Co Wexford six months after her skeletal remains washed up on Balinamona Beach on December 12, 1995.