Christian Parker

Perhaps you will be aware the Times newspaper covered a story in September about Right Care, Right Person, emphasising the stories of Sophie Cotton, Robin Woolforth and Ricki Gillatt and giving their relatives’ perspectives on inquests for two of them, which heard the police should have responded to 999 calls made – Robin’s inquest is […]

Dear Coroner

It’s hard to know how to contact or potentially influence His Majesty’s Coroners without writing to them all individually, which then means you’re either writing in very general terms or your writing to them about cases for which you inevitably don’t know the full details. But I nevertheless think there’s something emerging in my mind […]

Labouring Under the Misapprehension

His Majesty’s Coroner for Manchester North has last week issued a Preventing Future Death report to the College of Policing and the “RCRP Strategic Board” after the death of a woman by suicide in Manchester. Katie Overd was a vulnerable woman in her 40s who was usually housebound as a wheelchair user. She had a […]