Ms Laura Galligan:

I suppose I cannot comment definitely. Culturally it has been that it was okay to record a suspicious death under a "sudden death" category, which is non-crime, until the investigation was well advanced. They may be awaiting the DPP to return either a homicide direction. They may then reclassify or they may forget to or whatever the case may be. I do not know why. There are grey areas where it is not as clear-cut at the beginning that a certain case is a homicide. There are some very grey areas. For example, if somebody has blunt-force trauma it could be accidental or it could be caused by a third party and an investigation will ascertain that. As regards why they do not fill in the fields, I cannot comment as to the reason.