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Wed 06 Jun 2007Daughter may have retyped fileA document containing allegations similar to those in a document sent to an opposition justice spokesman in 2001 may have been retyped by the teenage daughter of Frank McBrearty snr as a typing exercise, the Morris tribunal has heard.A British document examiner has said that the anonymous document to former Fine Gael justice spokesman Jim Higgins, outlining serious allegations against senior gardaí, contained idiosyncrasies also found in letters it was believed were typed by retired garda PJ Togher, and that he was the most likely author of the anonymous allegations.