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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.
1. #CLOYNE The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has launched an attack on the Vatican, condemning the “dysfunction and disconnection’ of the Catholic Church and accusing it of downplaying the rape and torture of children in favour of upholding the reputation of the institution. There have also been further calls for the expulsion of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland during a motion in the Dáil today on the Cloyne Report.
2. #ABUSE The directors of Coláiste Cholmcille, the school where convicted sex offender caretaker Michael Ferry worked, issued a statement today reiterating that Ferry was not employed as a caretaker after his conviction in 2002. The school has said that he was employed to carry out odd jobs, and was always in the company of other workers.
3. #ABDUCTION Gardaí in Offaly are investigating reports of an attempted abduction yesterday evening. A girl in her early teens escaped from a man driving a white van outside Ferbane following a brief struggle. Gardaí are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
4. #AMERICAN AIRLINES American Airlines has announced that it’s to buy at least 460 new planes in the next five years, after yesterday announcing that it’s to close its Dublin office with the loss of 130 jobs. Unions and management are meeting today to discuss the announcement. The airline’s parent company reported a net quarterly loss of $286 million.
5. #HACKING Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan have won the right to access to police records of the phone-hacking affair. The pair want to sue the police for failure to act on evidence received in 2007. It’s also emerged today that senior royal staff were “gobsmacked” when David Cameron hired former News of the World editor Andy Coulson in 2007. Cameron has admitted today that hiring him was a mistake.
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Can a body be mummified in a week, considering the humidity in that part of the world?
I saw the guy Dave.
The body was well preserved considering the length of time that he had been dead.
At first it was thought that it was murder when a local fisherman brought him ashore.
Poor guy.
Apparently he was a very experienced sailor.
Interesting article here (graphic warning):
His last comunication was a year ago and the condition of the interior of the yacht would seem to indicate a much longer timeframe than one week. I’m no expert but I wouldn’t have thought one week would be enough to mumify a body like this.
He was mummified by the ocean winds, warm temperatures and salt air according to the Examiner.
I saw the pictures aswell. Noway all that mildew grew in 7 days. Saw a reprt the boat was seen adrift in early Jan
According to the Independent article linked above..
“has been discovered on his yacht drifting off the coast of the Phillipines seven years after the last reported sighting and a year after the last message received from him”
Don’t know where the 7 days idea came from…He’s been dead a while!
Great way to go.
So a body can be mummified by sea air in the space of a week? I belive this to be a shoddy article.
Can’t really call it a shoddy article if they’re reporting what the coroner has said.
@craig
pretty sure the coroner just said he died of a heart attack, not how long ago it happened.
“The German national is estimated to have been dead for more or less seven days,” he added, citing a police statement by police in the southern Philippines.”
No it literally says it there in your quote. The “dead more or less seven days, citing a police statement” part.
“acute myocardial infarction” – a heart attack if you’re a working class schmuck!
Oh no, that feels like a heart attack, I’d better strip naked. You can always trust the Filipino police when it comes to foreigners.
I dunno, if you’re isolated on a boat in the Pacific ocean there’s probably not much point in being dressed all the time.
If I was on my own yacht cruising around the Philippines you can be damn sure I’d be naked too.
he was German , Germans on yachts are usually Naked , and it doesnt matter that he was German, most single handed sailors sail naked when the weather is good …
He is covered with salt from sea spray from waves washing over the boat.
That can happen in days in the blistering tropical heat.
Salt water evaporates in minutes in the tropics, leaving a salt crust on everything.
He is encrusted in salt.
Mind you.
We humans preserve fish by salting them.
The sea strikes back at humans.
P.S.
The fact that seabirds had not already picked him clean into a skeleton means that he was dead for only a week or two at most.
I wonder how much cash he had on board. None? What a surprise
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