Top athlete best known for winning ‘world’s toughest’ triathlon in record time died aged 37 after taking cocaine and opiates, inquest hears Chris Stirling was found unresponsive at his Lakeland home in April last year Mr Stirling had a history of drug abuse which had plagued him since his teens Friends performed CPR at the … 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
Vladimir Putin may have to be investigated 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 investigated at … Read more
One-year-old boy who was found dead in hot tub in back garden of family home is named as inquest hears cause of death is unknown Eddie Murphy-Boxall’s mother identified him at Worthing coroner’s court today Police and paramedics rushed to the West Sussex home at the end of June The one-year-old was given emergency treatment … 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
Two children aged one and three died after their throats were slit by their father, an inquest has heard. Nineteen-month-old Pavinya Nithiyakumar and three-year-old Nigish Nithiyakumar died after suffering knife wounds at their home in Ilford, east London on Sunday, April 26. Their father Nithin Kumar, 40, also suffered a knife injury and is in … Read more
Retired midwife, 71, was found battered to death and covered in plastic sheeting in her conservatory just hours before Britain went into lockdown – before ‘killer’ fled to Sweden Body of Wendy Morse found in her Knypersley, Staffordshire home on March 22 An inquest heard the 71-year-old suffered a ‘severe blunt trauma head injury’ Police have … Read more
Holly Strawbridge found guilty of child cruelty and drugs charges after her son Tyler Peck died of an overdose at her Devon home A mother plied her 15-year-old son with liquid morphine, prescriptions drugs and alcohol, causing his death, an inquest found. Holly Strawbridge, 34, gave a cocktail of drugs and booze to her son Tyler … Read more