Gardaí contacted over missing possessions of man who died of Covid in Cork nursing home

Ballynoe Nursing Home in Upper Glanmire, Cork, is the site of what has become one of the worst coronavirus nursing home outbreaks in the country

Ballynoe Nursing Home has blamed its inability to find the items on the “manifest . . . logistical challenges” involved in returning to families the possessions of their departed loved ones. File photo

Gardaí have been asked to help find the possessions of a man who died of Covid at a Cork nursing home.

The family of Jimmy Lee claims a laptop, a mobile phone and personal documents are missing since he died in Ballynoe Nursing Home in Upper Glanmire last month. A dictaphone, clothing, a radio and a pair of binoculars are also missing.