All news on the topic: Coroner’s Court

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Dame Jenni Murray died after being dazzled by headlights before fatal crash
Dame Jenni Murray died days after being involved in a car crash when she was ‘dazzled’ by headlights, an inquest has heard.
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Professor Jason Arday’s death classed as “unnatural” as coroner opens investigation
Professor Jason Arday’s death has been classed as "unnatural" by a coroner.
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Mother suffocated nine-year-old son before taking her own life, inquest finds
A mother suffocated her nine-year-old son and took her own life before the pair were found dead at their home in Cornwall, an inquest has heard.
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Saudi prince died after mixing alcohol with GHB in £600-a-night London hotel, inquest hears
A Saudi prince found dead in his Kensington hotel room was almost three times over the drink-drive limit and had mixed alcohol with the party drug GHB, an inquest has heard.
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New footage shows killer Vickrum Digwa making false claims moments after stabbing Henry Nowak
Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years on June 1 for the murder of Mr Nowak, 18, in Southampton, after falsely claiming Mr Nowak had racially abused him.
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Seven deaths at “squalid” HMP Pentonville expose crisis in Britain’s prisons
Within one year, seven men died at the ‘squalid’ and ‘inhumane’ prison.
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Majestic Wines investor died after heated row with wife
A multimillionaire businessman was found dead at his London property following a row with his wife, an inquest heard.
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Victorian house horror as infant remains found with twine around neck and centuries-old dating
A baby boy whose skeletal remains were found wrapped in newspaper dating back to 1910 and with twine around his neck may have been alive up to 300 years ago, an inquest has heard
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British baby dies on first day of Caribbean holiday after fall from bed
Tommy Taylor-Mclean, seven months, died on the first day of the trip to St Lucia, when he fell out of bed and developed a bleed on the brain, East London Coroner’s Court was told today
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Woman discovered ’mummified and nearly skeletal’ after being ’left to survive on her own’
Laura Winham, 41, was found dead in her apartment in Woking, Surrey after her family raised the alarm. Today, an inquest into the tragedy heard a pathologist provide her cause of death.
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Elderly woman discovered pushing her daughter’s dead body in a shopping cart at a London shopping center
Joan Kathleen Turnell kept her daughter Tracey’s dead body in their shared flat in Leyton for over a year before she was discovered, inquest told.