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image captionInga Maria Hauser went missing after she arrived in Larne on 6 April 1988
The family of a young German woman found murdered in a Northern Ireland forest are seeking an inquest to establish what happened.
The body of Inga Maria Hauser, 18, from Munich was found in Ballypatrick Forest, Ballycastle, 33 years ago.
No-one has even been charged over her murder.
She was last seen on the Stranraer to Larne ferry two weeks earlier on 6 April. She did not take the train to Belfast as planned.
Last July, the PPS decided two people would not be charged over her killing. It followed the submission of a file from police.
The family of murdered German teenager Inga Maria Hauser, whose body was found in a Northern Irish forest in 1988, have made a fresh appeal for information 33 years after their loved one died.
The body of the 18-year-old was found in Ballypatrick Forest near Ballycastle in north County Antrim after she was last seen on a ferry travelling from Scotland to Larne in April of that year.
Last summer after the PSNI submitted a file to the Public Prosecution Service on two people, however the PPS decided not to take the case further.
Now the family of the murdered teen, who was subjected to a particularly brutal attack before she died, have said that they would like an inquest into the murder.
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Claire McKeegan admits to being “in and out of police stations a lot”, but this is no career criminal we are talking about.
Instead, it’s her reputation as a tireless human rights lawyer that has made her familiar to the forces of law and order.
Every day she deals with victims of serious crime; her clients include the family of murdered German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser and victims of institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.
“Rarely does someone go to see a solicitor to discuss something great,” the 34-year-old Co Antrim woman told the Belfast Telegraph.
“Usually they’re highly stressed, and as a last resort they come to me.”