Mystery skull could be doctor’s

MYSTERY surrounding a macabre discovery deepened yesterday as it emerged that a skull hidden in a so-called haunted house could belong to a disappeared doctor.

Gardaí said it was one of the theories they are following since the grim discovery was made at a house in Co Cork a few days before Christmas.

It may be early next week before forensic archaeologists at UCC are able to provide gardaí with an exact age on the skull, but a preliminary assessment carried out by assistant state pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster has put it somewhere about the 100-year-old mark.