Belfast-based patholgist Professor Jack Crane was giving evidence in the trial of Patrick Quirke, of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary, who denies murdering Mr Ryan, a part-time DJ known as Mr Moonlight.
Prof Crane did not carry out the post-mortem examination but was asked by gardaí four years later to review the autopsy report of former Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid Jabber, who is not available to give evidence to the trial. Prof Crane said he noted that another pathologist, Dr Michael Curtis, had said the cause of death could be the result of the impact of a vehicle. While he accepted this was possible, he said there was no real evidence to support this contention.
He said sometimes when bodies were being removed from a scene it might suffer an injury or be damaged and if a pathologist is present they will at least know what has happened. He said he had been asked a number of times previously to review autopsy reports by Dr Jabber and while he did not mean to be disrespectful, he sometimes found the language used by Dr Jabber to be "confusing".Earlier, a forensic anthropologist told the trial it was doubtful that a fracture to a leg bone of Mr Ryan was caused by concrete falling on his remains during the recovery operation, but said he could not rule it out.
He said the ribs were more fragile, but he could not say if the injuries could have been caused during the recovery process.
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