Gardaí make progress on West Cork body identification
Gardai investigating the discovery of human remains in fishing nets off the Irish coast have confirmed that a fisherman, matching identification documentation found on the body, went missing from a Spanish trawler last year.
Supt Declan O'Sullivan of Bantry Garda Station confirmed that gardai have received confirmation from Spanish police that a 38-year-old fisherman whose name matches that on an ID card found on the human remains was reported as going missing from a Spanish trawler fishing in Atlantic in 2018.
Gardai have now begun liaising with Interpol- as the man is not from Europe - in order to make contact with police in his home country and subsequently approach his family to obtain a DNA sample which they can then seek to match with DNA samples taken at post-mortem.
The largely skeletal remains of the lower half of the male torso was found by the crew of a French registered Spanish trawler, Rio de Bouza, when she hauled her nets when fishing midway between Cork and Cornwall, some 180 nautical miles off the Cork coast on January 19th. Gardaí were alerted upon the trawler's arrival in Castletownbere the next day.
It's understood an inquest into the man's death is planned later in the year once formal identification has taken place.
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