{"id":105919,"date":"2025-05-16T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105919\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:34:10","slug":"horrific-events-ended-my-daughters-beautiful-life-thousands-of-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105919\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Horrific events ended my daughter’s beautiful life thousands of miles away’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Liverpool student Danielle McLaughlin was found dead in a secluded spot\"DanielleDanielle McLaughlin was murdered in India (Image: PA Media)<\/p>\n

The family of a former Liverpool John Moores student who was murdered in India have welcomed a decision to hold an inquest into her death in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Danielle McLaughlin,<\/a> from Buncrana in Ireland, was found dead in a secluded spot in Canacona, an area of Goa popular with holidaymakers, in March 2017.<\/p>\n

Local man Vikat Bhagat, 31<\/a>, was found guilty at the District and Sessions Court in India earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Ms McLaughlin<\/a>, 28, had been celebrating Holi, a Hindu spring festival, at a nearby village.<\/p>\n

Her body was found the next day by a farmer in a field in a remote location.<\/p>\n

A post-mortem examination showed the backpacker suffered cerebral damage and constriction of the neck, causing her death.<\/p>\n

Weeks after the verdict in India, Ms McLaughlin\u2019s family solicitor Des Doherty applied to Attorney General Rossa Fanning to direct an inquest into her murder and rape, under Section 24(1) of the Coroners Act 1962.<\/p>\n

That has been granted.<\/p>\n

\"DanielleDanielle McLaughlin who was discovered dead in Canacona(Image: Family handout\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

In a statement, Ms McLaughlin\u2019s mother Andrea welcomed the move. She said: \u201cI am grateful to the Attorney General, who engaged with my solicitor as soon as an application was made that an inquest should be convened on the grounds that it would be advisable, and in the interests of justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also extend my thanks to the coroner for Donegal, for meeting with me and providing the confirmation that an inquest would now be opened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand and appreciate that the circumstances of Danielle\u2019s case, and the fact that she was killed when abroad make her case exceptional.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very heartening that the relevant authorities, here in Ireland, showed their compassion and care in agreeing to and supporting the requirement for an inquest to be held in Donegal, Danielle\u2019s home, after the horrific events that ended her beautiful life thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy solicitor has begun the process of providing all the legal documentation and contacts that he holds in Danielle\u2019s case to the coroner so that this may assist the coroner as he conducts his investigations, which will hopefully lead to a hearing in the months ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool student Danielle McLaughlin was found dead in a secluded spotDanielle McLaughlin was murdered in India (Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,48592,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-105919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-john-moores-university","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114516831026397263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}