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    GARDAI have taken the unusual step of deciding to exhume the remains of a deceased Sixmilebridge banqueting manager, who died on February 10, 1984, as part of a new investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. Work on the exhumation of Patrick Nugent’s remains is due to start early on Tuesday morning with the help of a team of forensic experts. In a statement issued to the Clare Champion, the family’s solicitor Kevin Winters of KRW LAW Human Rights lawyers confirmed family members have engaged with Gardai on both the sensitive logistics of the exhumation and its likely outworkings. “A key area will be the tests undertaken on bones to see if those results might alter hitherto settled narratives on the case. We hope those anthropological findings will provide new investigative leads for Gardai in all their follow up inquiries. In many ways, we hope this historic investigative milestone will pave the way for a renewed investigative strategy. …

MEMBERS of a Sixmilebridge family have been invited to a meeting with the Department of Justice to “explain the next steps” of a state inquiry regarding the death of Patrick Nugent in 1984. The state inquiry led by Judge Patrick Clyne is a report into the Garda investigation of the death of the then 23-year-old banqueting manager in Bunratty. The Nugent family will be accompanied by their solicitor, Kevin Winters of KRM Law LLP, when they meet the Assistant Secretary General of the Department of Justice to discuss Judge Clyne’s report. Having received the advice of the Attorney General, Justice Minister Heather Humphreys told Deputy Michael McNamara in the Dáil on Tuesday the Department of Justice had invited the Nugent family to a meeting to “explain the next steps in relation to Judge Clyne’s final report”. “This meeting is due to take place in person next week. I do appreciate Mr Nugent’s family are most anxious to receive the outcome …