Baby’s inquest adjourned as parents unable to attend

THE parents of a baby, whose death at 10 days of age had initially been treated as murder, are to be advised a coroner was anxious to open inquest proceedings.

The inquest into the death of infant Johnny McCarthy was adjourned, for the third time yesterday, at Drogheda Coroners Court.

The infant was pronounced dead on January 8 last year in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.