Trial delay may help search for aid worker’s body

THE family of an Irish-born aid worker who was kidnapped and murdered in Iraq have described the adjournment of her killer’s trial as a boost to the continued efforts to locate her remains.

Margaret Hassan’s Irish relatives said the postponement of the retrial — announced yesterday in Baghdad — would give her family more time to fight the appeal of the man jailed for her killing.

Dublin-born Ms Hassan, 59, was the director of humanitarian group Care International in Iraq and was kidnapped in Baghdad in October 2004 and shot dead under a month later. Her body has never been found.