Coroner bows to pressure from family

A coroner has bowed to pressure and offered to almost treble the number of witnesses for an inquest into the death of a woman who died days after giving birth.

Dhara Kivlehan, 28 and from India, died from multi-organ failure in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital on September 28, 2010, after suffering a severe strain of pre-eclampsia and being airlifted four days earlier from Sligo General.

Widower Michael Kivlehan, 34, accused Leitrim coroner Eamon MacGowan, of presiding over a cover-up at a preliminary hearing last month after he initially said he would call six medics.