Family exhume boxer’s body for independent postmortem

A SECOND postmortem was carried out yesterday on Olympic boxer Darren Sutherland after his body was exhumed from a cemetery in Co Meath.

The medical examination by an independent pathologist of the 27-year-old, who won bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, was carried out after Meath County Council granted a licence to his family to have his grave in St Finian’s Cemetery in Navan reopened.

The body was exhumed at 5am yesterday morning and was reinterred by the afternoon.