The family of Irish boxer Darren Sutherland have asked for a second post-mortem to be conducted into his death.
Sutherland, who was found dead by manager Frank Maloney last September, will have his body exhumed after the Meath County Council granted a licence for this to happen.
A statement from Sutherland’s family read, “Whilst they are not at liberty to go into the specific reasons for their application given the pending coronial inquest into their late son’s death, they feel that the conduct of a second post-mortem into Darren’s death will only assist in putting all relevant matters before the coroner when the inquest into Darren’s death is reconvened later this year.
“They are firmly of the view that the only forum for determining the facts surrounding Darren’s death is through the judicial process and not otherwise.”
Sutherland won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, defeating world silver medalist Alfonso Blanco Parra on his run to the semi-final.
He was 27 at the time of his death, when the cause was believed to be suicide.
