Photo: SUPPLIED/ODTThe pathologist who determined Gore child Lachlan Jones died from drowning says he saw no signs that the boy had been put in a freezer. He would have asked for a more thorough forensic autopsy if he found anything surprising, and did not agree with two forensic pathologists who said that drowning could not safely be concluded. But the pathologist said he was unaware there were concerns about Lachlan's death, or that a more thorough forensic autopsy had initially been requested, but then withdrawn. A forensic pathologist should have performed the autopsy, as Southland was not set up to autopsy children, he said. The form he received before the autopsy noted the death was not suspicious.
