John O’Sullivan died following the incident in the intensive care unit
A fresh inquest has been requested into the death of a man in a hospital Co Derry following a road crash.
In the same period of time, two police officers from the then Royal Ulster Constabulary were admitted to the same ICU following a republican paramilitary attack.Mr O’Sullivan’s family said they understand he died when his assisted breathing apparatus became disconnected. In a statement they said: “Our family firstly, has endured five decades of guessing about the last moments of life for an adored son, cherished brother, loved husband and caring father, in his unaccounted death while recovering within the ICU at Altnagelvin Hospital in 1973, a needless death when secondly, his initial assessment looking so promising, he having so much more to offer, ever-more devastating for our late mother.
“There was no police investigation: the original inquest was flawed: the only path cruelly offered to a widow with a young family, being to engage in a protracted five-year civil action against a health authority answering no questions.
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