Fed: Senior diplomat to be quizzed about Kovco body bungle

AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2006
Fed: Senior diplomat to be quizzed about Kovco body bungle

A senior Australian diplomat who oversaw a bungled identity check of Private JAKE KOVCO's
body in Kuwait .. is expected to give evidence to a Sydney inquiry tomorrow.

ALASTAR (Alastar) ADAMS .. first secretary at the Australian Embassy in Kuwait .. will
be questioned about the bungle .. in which the body of a Bosnian carpenter was substituted
for that of the Victorian soldier.

The inquiry was told last week .. Mr ADAMS was at the civilian morgue in Kuwait ..

when final identification checks were made on the body believed to be Private KOVCO.

Mr ADAMS will give his evidence on a video link from Kuwait.







Private KOVCO was killed when his gun discharged in his barracks room in Iraq on April 21.

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