Report to find hospital staff misled gardaí

A LONG-AWAITED report on the death of a 75-year-old woman in a north Cork hospital is expected to claim hospital staff gave contradictory and misleading evidence to gardaí about how she died.

Report to find hospital staff misled gardaí

It is also likely to agree with post mortem results which found Hannah Comber was choked to death by a restraining belt being used to hold her in a chair at Heatherside hospital in June 2006.

The report will also claim there was no evidence to support a suggestion by staff that the woman had died as a result of a seizure. Nevertheless, it will agree with existing conclusions that the death was accidental.

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