A retired police chief took his own life after he became ‘paranoid and neurotic’ while under coronavirus quarantine to protect his family, an inquest has heard. James Connelly-Webster, 58, was found dead in a chalet at the bottom of his garden in Crackington Haven, Bude on April 1 after self-isolating there when he began to display symptoms … Read more
The mother of a black man who died after he was restrained by officers has told an inquest he had a fear of police as he had been ‘mistreated’ and Tasered in the past. Kevin Clarke died in police custody at Lewisham Hospital in March 2018, following an incident in the Polsted Road area of … Read more
Waitress, 19, who became obsessed with how many likes her selfies got on social media hanged herself while on the phone to her best friend Chloe Davison died at her home in Lanchester, County Durham last December She had been on the phone to her best friend Lauren Askew moments earlier Months later health workers called … Read more
Caroline Flack was ‘being harassed by an ex-partner’ which added to her stress during the court ordeal that led to her suicide, inquest documents have revealed. The former Love Island host, 40, had a stalker in the days running up to the court case following an assault on her boyfriend Lewis Burton. Flack was found … Read more
Caroline Flack was ‘being harassed by an ex-partner’ which added to her stress during the court ordeal that led to her suicide, inquest documents have revealed. The former Love Island host, 40, had a stalker in the days running up to the court case following an assault on her boyfriend Lewis Burton. Flack was found … Read more
Tricky’s daughter died in an ‘untoward incident’ at psychiatric hospital, inquest is today set to hear into death of 24-year-old that left former Massive Attack star’s ‘soul feeling empty’ Mazy ‘Mina’ Topley-Bird, 24, died at Darlington’s West Park Hospital in May 2019 Her death prompted a mental health trust to launch an ‘untoward incident’ probe … Read more
Judges have ruled that a coroner wrongly narrowed the scope of an inquest into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018 after handling a perfume bottle containing a chemical poison. Judges heard that the mother was exposed to the … Read more
A Coroner may have to ask Vladimir Putin for evidence if the family of a Salisbury novichok victim win their legal battle to widen the scope of her inquest, the High Court heard today. The daughter of Dawn Sturgess, 44, has taken action after Senior Coroner for Wiltshire David Ridley placed limits on which issues would be … Read more
A husband flew into a rage and strangled his wife to death before hanging himself while their two-year-old son slept in his cot, an inquest has heard. Kiril Nemcev, 32, attacked his wife Lana Nemceva, 33, after they argued about her mother moving in with them. The couple’s lodger then made the grisly discovery when … Read more
Widower who says his wife starved herself to death in a care home after he was stopped from visiting her during the coronavirus outbreak demands an inquest Retired architect Shaikh Rehman was told he could no longer visit his sick wife Rosemary, 75, was in a care home after suffering a stroke and also had … Read more