All news on the topic: Inquests

Jack Piper-Sheach suffered an electric shock while staying at Tiffany's Hotel on Blackpool Promenade and was rushed to hospital in Liverpool before tragically dying four days later

Sharon Goddard had just arrived back in the UK after a dream trip to the Caribbean when she experienced chest pains and was rushed to hospital, where she died before emergency surgery

Kelsey Brown, from Liverpool, died at a clinic in Marbella after bleeding for more than five hours while her dead baby was delivered, with the centre having no blood for a transfusion, an inquest heard

Dinal De Alwis had just started sixth form after excelling at school when he was contacted by someone on social media app Snapchat who went onto blackmail the teenager

A police officer at the scene thought that Mark Wilfred Davies, 53, who had been missing for 11 days, was already dead. He had no shoes and holes in his socks and he was "dirty and skinny"

Ben Leonard, 16, was on a Scout trip visting the Great Orme headland in Llandudno when he decided to take an unsupervised route up a hillside, but as he tried to come down, he slipped and fell to the road, suffering fatal head injuries

The 17 year old died at M60 Skip Hire in Bury town centre earlier this month when he was caught by the partial collapse of a wall. He had just started working there

Esther Martin was attacked by two XL bullies on Saturday, February 3 having travelled from her home in London to see her 11-year-old grandson

Sophie Richardson had come into some money in the days before death the detective investigating her death revealed. She was found dead having taken heroin

Matthew Collins was killed by a fatal riptide in Kent, just days after he welcomed his sixth child. The "caring" dad went into the water with a friend following a gym session

The two inquests into the deaths of Mayawati Bracken, 56, and Julian Bracken, 18, heard how the teenager was found dead on railway tracks just half an hour after she died from a stab wound

The man's body was discovered frozen in the right-hand wheel of a plane which had arrived at London Gatwick Airport from Banjul in The Gambia but he hasn't been identified

A man walking home from the gym discovered the body of Kerry Newman, 40, "dumped like rubbish" at the side of a footpath in Rochdale, Greater Manchester on July 18 last year

An inquest has opened after Bryce Hodgson, 30, was shot by armed police in the neck and chest when he broke into a house in Surrey Quays, south east London, in January

Five-year-old Ellis Hamer-Holland was being treated for leukaemia when he was re-admitted to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital with severe pain, an inquest heard

Josh Alexander, 21, and his lifeguard girlfriend, Jessica Poole, 18, died in a horror crash with a skip lorry, as inquest heard 'worn lines' on the road could have been a contributing factor

Minnie Rae Dunn fell 60ft after climbing on a sofa on a flat balcony. Her dad Daniel Kenney said he still has a lot of questions over his daughter's death in Buckland, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Orson Morris was just 12 years old when father Phil, 48, died in December 2021 after gastric sleeve surgery. He was given just minutes to say goodbye as the hospital had already called the undertakers

Pearl Black died aged just 22 months, when a Range Rover rolled off a driveway, hitting a garden wall that fell on her as she walked to her local park in 2017. Now her mum Gemma wants to change the law

The body of a man who was full of drugs and drink was found near to the car he crashed in after he was flung out of the window an inquest into his death has revealed

Sarah Lumb, a doting mother, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Halsall, Lancashire, and her inquest was told the woman sustained "unsurviveable" trauma

Abi's 19-year-old brother, Josh, was walking home when he was hit by a vehicle and killed - and the incident was reported to the very call centre she was working in

An inquest heard Josh Pitt had passed his driving test just three months prior to the fatal crash

Phillip Morris, 48, had surgery at St Anthony's Hospital, owned by private healthcare provider Spire, in Surrey for a gastric sleeve operation and died following surgery, an inquest heard

Lecturer Phil Morris was admitted to Spire hospital St Anthony's in Surrey for a planned gastric sleeve operation when he died from a lack of oxygen - before the private firm sent wife Dana the bill days later