Review of inquest into boy’s death in custody begins

A JUDICIAL review of the inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy following overnight detention in Garda custody gets under way in the High Court today.

The parents of Brian Rossiter, who died two days after falling into a coma in Clonmel Garda Station almost six years ago, are challenging the decision by the Cork City Coroner to refuse to call independent forensic pathology evidence.

Pat and Siobhán Rossiter wanted to call evidence from two British professors of forensic pathology who had examined the case.