I spent February 2021 engaged as an expert witness in a police contact death inquest which was sitting in Milton Keynes – the inquest after the death of Leon Briggs in Bedfordshire in 2013.  When those proceedings concluded, His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Bedfordshire requested a discussion with me to help formulate the Preventing Future […]

Over a year ago, in January 2024, four bodies were discovered in a home in Costessey, Norfolk and led to a number of immediate and ongoing consequences connected to the Right Care, Right Person programme which was due to go live in that police force area a week or so after the tragedy. In summary, […]

It has been announced that Her Honour (HH), Deborah Taylor will lead the public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks of June 2023.  Ms Taylor is am experienced, former senior judge whose inquiry will last potentially two years before reporting and will take place in lieu of inquests in to the victims’ deaths: Ian Coates, Grace […]