DNA tests identify remains of Pole

A MAN picking mushrooms found the skeletal remains of a 46-year-old Polish man who had been reported missing from his address in Killarney for more than two months, an inquest was told.

The man was walking through a wooded area close to Ross Castle, on October 30, 2006, when he noticed a rope hanging from a tree. Attached to the rope were some bones and rotten clothes and there was a heap of bones on the ground.

DNA tests helped identify the deceased who had been living at Fairhill, Killarney.