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A long-awaited inquest into the execution of a young German backpacker successful Northern Ireland 36 years agone is expected to instrumentality place.
The assemblage of Inga Maria Hauser, 18, from Munich was recovered successful Ballypatrick Forest, Ballycastle, successful 1988.
No-one has ever been charged successful transportation with her killing.
Claire McKeegan, who represents the Hauser family, said the inquest would beryllium "the archetypal afloat introspection of the facts successful the tragedy" of the murder.
A preliminary proceeding is owed to beryllium held successful Belfast aboriginal connected Monday.
Ms Hauser went missing aft arriving successful Larne connected a ferry from Scotland successful April 1988.
Her assemblage was recovered 2 weeks later.
In 2020, the Public Prosecution Service confirmed that 2 individuals reported successful transportation with the execution would not beryllium charged. It followed the submission of a record from police.
Police said astatine the clip that they remained committed to bringing those liable for the young student's sidesplitting to justice.
Ms McKeegan said Ms Hauser's family, including her sister Friederike and her nephew Viktor, were "seeking justness and truth".
"Since Inga's brutal execution successful 1988, her household backmost successful Germany person been hopeless for the information arsenic to what happened to her that night, who inflicted this cruelty connected her and wherefore those liable person not been brought to justice," she told BBC News NI.
"Sadly her parents are not live to spot this day. The symptom that they endured successful the aftermath of Inga's decease was indescribable and all-consuming.
"This inquest volition beryllium the archetypal afloat nationalist introspection of the facts successful the calamity of her murder."
Ms Hauser's parent died successful 2019 and her begetter successful 2006, ne'er knowing what happened to their daughter.
The precocious SDLP politician, John Dallat, campaigned for years to support a spotlight connected the case.
Ms McKeegan said the Hauser household was grateful for the nationalist enactment implicit the years, and successful peculiar to Mr Dallat "for keeping Inga's lawsuit successful the nationalist oculus arsenic the years went connected and the lawsuit went cold".
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