The Independent Office for Police Conduct has today published its latest report on Deaths During or Following Police Custody or Contact, for 2021/22.  This is an annual reporting mechanism and it covers situations where people died during arrest or detention by the police, as well as deaths which occurred after contact with the police had […]

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I’ve been thinking about Angela, Andy and Ben Mays these last few days as the second inquest begins in to the death of Sally, their daughter and sister.  She died in 2014 after being turned away from Miranda House, a mental health unit in Hull and the original inquest found this to amount to neglect […]

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The website of the Office of Chief Coroner has been updated and is now available for use — The transition from the old site to the new meant many recent Preventing Future Death reports were delayed in their publication, but they are now available online, along with all the historic reports which have migrated across […]

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