Excavation delay in search for body of Alzheimer’s patient

GARDAÍ have yet to begin excavating a site where the body of a missing Alzheimer’s patient may have been hidden for more than 30 years, two months after a coroner’s court decision to re-launch the search.

At a Dublin Coroner’s Court case in August, officers from Lucan Garda Station obtained an adjournment to the inquest of Alice Clifford after new evidence emerged in the case.

The court heard it was now believed the 57-year-old mother of seven, who has been missing since she disappeared from St Loman’s Hospital in west Dublin on November 28, 1979, may have fallen into a nearby trench.