The 18-year-old’s death in April 1988 remains one of the region’s most high-profile unsolved murders
A coroner has said he is satisfied he has jurisdiction to hold an inquest into the death of a German backpacker murdered in Northern Ireland in 1988.
The body of Ms Hauser from Munich was found in a remote forest near Ballycastle in Co Antrim 14 days after she was last seen alive on a ferry from Scotland. Opening the pre-inquest review hearing, counsel for the coroner Philip Henry told the court that a Form 21 had been issued previously over Ms Hauser’s death. A Form 21 is issued to register a death where an inquest has been held.
“I use that term advisedly at this point, because an inquest has a very clear legal meaning in terms of the process, what it is supposed to do, arrive at a verdict, etc. “I made some attempts to obtain the inquest papers, but they simply can’t be found. To be frank, that is the position we find ourselves in. At present I am satisfied that I am not functus officio and that I have jurisdiction to hold this long-awaited inquest into Ms Hauser’s death.”
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