The afternoon of Day 1 of Myles’s inquest started with the coroner calling Dr Hardy to the stand. He gave an affirmation. C: Start with who you are, what your professional discipline is, and where you work? AH: I’m Dr Andrew Hardy, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and I work at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation […]
After a mid morning break court returned shortly before midday and the coroner called Dr Yaqoob Ghumro to the stand. He swore an oath. [Dr Ghumro was relatively quietly spoken and at times I could not hear his answers from the back of the court. As with all my reporting its as accurate as I […]
Paul was asked to come forward, he gave an affirmation and confirmed his name as Paul Scriven and told the court he lived in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He told the court that he was Myles’s uncle. The coroner started by reading an email onto the record that was known to all the Interested Persons in […]
I was at West Yorkshire Coroners Court in Bradford today for the first day of the final hearing touching on the death of Myles Scriven. The inquest is being heard by Assistant Coroner Crispin Oliver. Myles was 31 when he died in April 2023 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, which is run by the Calderdale and […]
The Lampard Inquiry is an independent statutory inquiry investigating the deaths of 2,000 mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023. The inquiry has had a number of public hearings now, that you can view on the inquiry’s youtube channel. I’ve followed a number of the hearings, dipping in and out, listening to the […]
It’s been an age (4 months) since I’ve blogged and whilst the title of this post doesn’t refer to me (the disappearing bit), it could do. I am still very much doing my open justice crowdfunded work, but as my crowdfunding has dropped off (some people died, some have been hit by the increases in […]
Blue Apple Theatre Company have produced a new film to mark Memorial Holocaust Day. While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust have information about the treatment of disabled people […]
David overcame a lifetime of challenges, not least the attitudes of professionals in health and social care who did not understand that, just because a person cannot speak words, it doesn’t mean they can’t think and feel. David was the bravest brother, son and uncle, but what he endured in his final days is unimaginable. […]
In November the evidence was heard over two days in the inquest of David Lodge, who died on 13 January 2022 at Hull Royal Infirmary. Today, Assistant Coroner for East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston upon Hull, Edward Steele, returned to court to give his conclusions. He opened by expressing his condolences […]
In June 2018, which feels like a lifetime ago but is only actually 6.5 years, I met Elly Chapple for the first time. It was at Festable at National Star College, we’d been connected online for a while, but on that day I heard her talk about her daughter Ella, and the lessons she had […]