Keith Barry says burgled grandfather’s death not properly investigated and reveals inquest details

Keith Barry has spoken of the trauma of his grandfather’s sudden death in 2009.

Paddy Barry’s house was burgled and the 82-year-old later died due to injuries sustained during the incident.

On a recent episode of The Grief Pod podcast with Venetia Quick, Keith Barry discussed what he believed happened.

“We were told by the guards it was a number of people broke his front [door] down and they beat him up and he died three or five days later. It gets all blurry in your head,” he said.

“That’s a real traumatic experience because it’s not a death that anybody should have to deal with in a family because it’s not just the shock of him dying, it’s the shock that he didn’t die of natural causes, and then you’re thinking you’ve got to catch these people, and I got noisy in the media because I wanted to catch these people.”

“I was really, really close to my grandad as well and was absolutely very angry.”

Inquest challenge

Barry revealed that the State pathologist…

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