Joint Responsibility

I’ve been thinking for most of this week about the findings and conclusions of His Majesty’s Coroner for Northern Ireland (NI) in the inquest in to the deaths of Mr Michael and Mrs Marjorie Cawdery and I suspect there may be a few posts flowing from different things which were said, this being the first. […]

Diagnostic Over-Shadowing

A coroner has stated her intention to issue a Preventing Future Deaths report after concluding an inquest in to the death of Lee Bowman, who was found deceased between two fence panels in Doncaster in South Yorkshire in January 2022. Mr Bowman had been reported missing to Nottinghamshire Police in November 2021 (because he lived […]

Thomas’s Inquest

The time passed between the death of Thomas Orchard in Exeter in October 2012 and the inquest conclusion just before Christmas 2023 is the longest I’ve known. In years spent looking at death-after-contact inquests in policing and mental health, +13yrs is the most egregious of all the delays, but then a lot has had to […]