The cost and administration of opening an inquest seems to encourage some coroners to overlook an element of doubt. If there ‘might be’ a natural cause and a doctor ‘might be’ willing to sign a form, many coroners will accept that without too much inquiry. Sadly, the need for the police to pay a standard fee, admittedly several thousand pounds, to a forensic pathologist, may be enough to persuade them that a death (especially, it sometimes seems, one close to the end of the financial year) really is not so suspicious after all and can be dealt with by a local, non-forensic pathologist instead
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Check out this quote.this is shocking and is only going to get worse
