Family seek hypothermia death inquiry

A PUBLIC inquiry has been called for in the case of a young mother-of-two who died of hypothermia.

There was a round of applause at Dublin City Coroner’s Court as Dr Ciaran Craven, counsel for Rachel Peavoy’s family, said an inquiry is needed as “this was a young woman, who has left two orphaned children, who froze to death in Dublin”.

Rachel Peavoy, 30, of Shangan Road, Ballymun, Dublin 9, was found dead in her flat on January 11. Pathologist Anthony Dorman, a consultant histopathologist at Beaumont Hospital, said cause of death was hypothermia.