Assault 'unlikely' in Barron death, say experts

Two British Home Office experts today concluded that injuries sustained by cattle dealer Richie Barron in his mystery Co Donegal roadside death nearly seven years ago were most likely the result of a road accident.

Dr Helen Whitwell a consultant forensic pathologist at the Home office since 1988 said “it was very difficult, if not impossible” to think of any combination of weapons that might have caused the injuries she saw in an examination of body parts from Mr Barron some five years after he died in October, 1966.