Geoff Knupfer
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first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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The complications are there because it's also a coroner's case.
We have to put...
We have to put this before a coroner, ultimately, and the coroner is interested in the cause of death and identification.
So our bit was the identification, which we did by DNA profiling, which was, thank goodness, it was pretty easy.
One of my first recommendations was that we have our own confidential DNA database for all surviving family members.
And that worked pretty well because all dental records and all medical records had disappeared by the time we started in 2005.
So that was number one priority to get DNA profiles from all surviving family members before anybody else.
Passed away, of course.
So we had one or two mums and dads, but predominantly brothers and sisters.
And in some cases, children, of course.
I mean, one of the other interesting little asides, which I'm sure will resonate with you, was that in one of the early cases, the former paramilitaries produced a body, nobody knows from where, in a coffin and left it in a disused churchyard, graveyard.
This is way back in 1999.
And
And Garda Shikana, serving as agents of the commission at that point, went to the churchyard, went to the graveyard to collect the body.
But they went in forensic suits.
They went in scene suits.
And, of course, the former paramilitaries cried foul and said, hey, hang on a minute.
No, this is supposed to be humanitarian, not forensic.
And the guards rightly said, well, we're doing this because it's a health and safety issue, not because it's a forensic issue.
But from that point onwards, we didn't wear...
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