Parents of boy killed mountain biking want families allowed access to accident scenes

Garda Gráinne Harrahill of Dundrum Garda Station said gardaí had to follow procedures to preserve the scene of a crime or accident and she only realised later the upset it had caused the family. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

The parents of a boy killed in a mountain biking accident in the Dublin Mountains have called for a change in Garda policy to allow parents of children killed in sudden, tragic circumstances to be afforded the opportunity to see their body at the scene of an accident.

Naoise O’Sullivan, aged 13, of Beech Court, Killiney, Co Dublin, died from a traumatic spinal injury suffered in a crash on a trail at Ticknock Forest in Dublin on August 11, 2020, while mountain biking with two friends.