The bodies of three men who were killed when their vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a truck on the N7 in Dublin last year while being chased by gardaí had to be identified using DNA samples from relatives, an inquest has heard.
The three men – Dean Maguire (29), Karl Freeman (26) and Graham Taylor (31) all from Tallaght – died when their BMW vehicle burst into flames following a high-speed crash between Citywest and Baldonnell on July 7, 2021 while they were driving on the wrong side of the N7.
A former scientist attached to Forensic Science Ireland, John Hoade, told a sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court that he was able to match DNA samples taken from one of the parents of each of the deceased with blood samples taken from the men’s bodies.
