Coroners and Justice Bill
12:00 pm
George Howarth (Knowsley North and Sefton East, Labour)
Thank you. Mr. Rebello, you made the point, and I agree with you, that even in cases where there may have been multiple deaths in one incident, each case is different. Each inquest should be about a different death, even though the overall event may have caused all of the deaths. That is an important distinction to make. There have been exceptions to that. There were a series of mini-inquests into the Hillsborough deaths which meant that they were doing eight per day. Although there was an inquest into each death, it was a shortened version. As the Liverpool coroner you will know that that caused a great deal of anguish, particularly given the insensitivity of the conduct of the coroner in those inquests. Do you think these new arrangements will do anything to improve those sorts of inquest or do you think there is scope for some further improvements for cases where there are multiple deaths arising from one incident?