{"id":335714,"date":"2025-08-11T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:33:11","slug":"date-set-for-lester-mclennan-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335714\/","title":{"rendered":"Date set for Lester McLennan inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London man had been on holiday in Northern Ireland with his family<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Lester-McLennan.jpg\" alt=\"Lester McLennan smiling in dark rimmed glasses and wearing dark coloured top \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lester McLennan(Image: Submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An inquest into the death of a London man found at the Giant\u2019s Causeway is set to be heard in September<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Lester McLennan, 20, of South Vale, was reported missing to police last November 2 sparking a search operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The keen hiker had been on a family holiday in Northern Ireland, when he took a solo visit to see the natural beauty spot on the region\u2019s north coast. His body was found on February 23 at the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/giants-causeway \" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Giant\u2019s Causeway<\/a> close to Bushmills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A brief review hearing at Belfast Coroner\u2019s Court on Monday morning was told the inquest is likely to be heard on the planned date of September 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mr McLennan\u2019s mother Lalitha was among those who attended the hearing remotely. Coroner Joe McCrisken said they are in a \u201cgood position to proceed on the date that has been listed, September 8\u201d. The inquest is to be heard in one day at Coleraine courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage<\/strong> <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=1342b3be-3db3-461a-a6b4-c60bfcaa13da&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"sign up to our daily newsletterLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London man had been on holiday in Northern Ireland with his familyLester McLennan(Image: Submitted) An inquest into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[78922,94407,378,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-co-antrim","9":"tag-giants-causeway","10":"tag-in-the-news","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115010155824102451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335714","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=335714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}