UK expert says drugs to blame for raid death

A British pathologist has backed the findings of a postmortem which showed illegal drugs played a major role in the death of a man who became ill during a drugs raid in Cork almost five years ago.

Dr Richard Shepherd — a British-based consultant forensic pathologist who specialises in complicated homicide cases — said there was no pathological evidence of excessive or forceful restraint on David O’Mahony’s body.

And he ruled out traumatic asphyxiation as the cause of death.