Mystery over golf ball found in dead man’s throat

GARDAÍ ruled out claims that pathologists had failed to spot a golf ball lodged down a dead man’s throat.

Garda sources said the ball must have been put in the man’s throat following the postmortem at St James’s Hospital in Dublin’s south inner city.

The focus of the investigation is the period after the postmortem and before embalming at a nearby undertakers, where the unsettling discovery was made.