A convicted sex offender from Co Donegal had to be identified from his DNA after he was found dead in a Dublin caravan park, his inquest has heard.
Donegal Daily revealed back in 2022 how the body of notorious Patrick Porter from Burnfoot was found in a van at Camac Valley Caravan and Camping Park in Clondalkin.
Paramedics suggested that Porter had been dead for a number of weeks.
The Dublin District Coroner’s Court was told that DNA was taken from the remains of a body found at a camper van at the park.
It was cross-referenced with Porter’s father in Co Donegal and it proved a match.
Porter’s body was found after French tourists passing by the camper van complained of a bad smell which they had thought was rubbish.
Porter was found dead in a van at Camac Valley Caravan and Camping Park in Clondalkin on July 27th.
He had checked into the park at the start of July using his own name before his remains were found in a van parked at the site.
When Gardai examined the van they found human remains in the van.
The remains were removed and a post-mortem was carried out on the badly decomposed body.
Porter, who is from Grange in Inch Island, has convictions for lewd behaviour and other sex offences going back as far as 2011.
He had served jail sentences from a number of incidents both here and in the North.
Porter was jailed for 14 months at Derry Magistrates Court in 2015 when pleaded guilty to committing an act outraging public decency.
On that occasion, he leaned over a seat on a sleeping woman on a bus travelling from Dublin to Derry and masturbated beside her while she slept.
In 2016 he was given a six month suspended jail sentence for exposing himself to two women from a flat on the Strand Road in Derry.
In February 2021, Porter was due to appear again at Letterkenny District Court charged with performing a lewd act on Aileach Road in Buncrana on May 11th, 2017.
For full story see https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/body-of-serial-sex-offender-found-in-caravan-park-had-to-be-identified-by-dna-inquest-hears/a1083590622.html