Inquest to hear conflicting evidence

CONFLICTING new evidence from a forensic pathologist will be heard at the inquest into the death of a schoolboy who died days after falling unconscious in Garda custody, a coroner ruled yesterday.

Cork city coroner Dr Myra Cullinane agreed to allow admission of a report from an independent British-based pathologist into the death of 14-year-old Brian Rossiter in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. The evidence, understood to conflict with the findings of state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy, is to be presented during next month’s inquest into the 2002 incident.

The teenager, from Mount Prospect, Clonard, Co Wexford, was arrested for a public order offence on the night of September 10/11, 2002.