'Element of misfortune' in injury that caused death of Mongolian woman, murder trial told

Dr Heidi Okkers told the trial that the injury Ms Tserendorj suffered does not cause immediate collapse

Urantsetseg Tserendorj was able to walk from near the Custom House Quay building on the quays to Connolly Station where she met her husband and got into an ambulance before collapsing. File photo

There was "an element of misfortune" in the injury that caused the death of Urantsetseg Tserendorj, a pathologist has told the trial of a 16-year-old boy who is accused of her murder.

Dr Heidi Okkers told the Central Criminal Court trial that a stab wound partially severed Ms Tserendorj's internal carotid artery, cutting off the blood flow to her brain and causing her death. She told defence counsel, Michael O'Higgins SC, that injuries to the internal carotid artery are less common than injuries to the external artery, which takes blood to the face rather than the brain.