Gardaí set to launch murder probe pending autopsy results of remains found in Cork

A Garda forensic member with State Pathologist Margaret Bolster and Superintendent Mick Comyns coming out of the woods along the main Midleton to Whitegate Road in East Cork where skeletal remains were found. Picture: Dan Linehan

Gardaí are poised to launch a murder investigation pending the results of a post-mortem on severely decomposed remains found dumped in a roadside ditch in East Cork during searches for missing man Kieran Quilligan.

Dental records will be required to help formally identify the partially skeletal remains found in scrub just a few yards off the main Midleton to Whitegate road, close to Whitewell Cross about 3km south of Saleen village, just after midday.