The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

The inquest concluded that " the death of the deceased Wessel Johannes ( Hansie ) Cronje was brought about by an act or omission prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of pilots.

The cause of death was asphyxiation from vomit, and a verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held on 27 October.

The inquest lasted for six months, and the jury verdict, declared given on 7 April 2008, was that Diana and Dodi had been unlawfully killed through the negligent driving of Henri Paul and those in control of the pursuing vehicles.

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

During the coroner ’ s inquest on Morgan's murder, Pete Spence's wife Marietta Duarte testified that her husband, Frank Stilwell, Frederick Bode, Florentino " Indian Charlie " Cruz, and an unnamed half-breed Indian had turned up at her home an hour after the shooting, and that Spence threatened violence if she told what she knew.

An open verdict is given where the cause of death cannot be identified on the evidence available to the inquest.

* The Palestine Post, Jerusalem: the newspaper reported on the inquest into the bombing throughout September 1946.

From 1271, the papacy carried out a long inquest on the subject of Louis IX, which ended with his canonization, announced in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.

An inquest jury found by a majority verdict of 3-2 that an overdose of fentanyl was responsible for the death by misadventure of Anita Chan Lai-ling, 69, who died on October 17, 2007, after she was given an overdose of fentanyl.

The most dramatic public event to impinge on the Push was the mysterious Bogle-Chandler case of 1963 and its sequel, a heavily publicised inquest in which several Push personalities gave evidence.

An inquest was held on 15 April by Wynne Edwin Baxter, who had come to notoriety conducting inquests for the Whitechapel murders of 1888.

A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held on 27 October 1980.

Also local magistrate Virgil F. Lyons ordered an inquest into Williams ' death concerning the welt that was visible on his head.

There was no inquest on his death and it was variously alleged he had stabbed himself or cut his throat with a penknife or taken an overdose of opium, while a few newspapers reported his death as due to an apoplectic fit or stroke.

Her death was announced shortly after Brown received this letter, which led him to wonder whether she had finally carried out her side of the pact and had used the suicide pill at last: apparently no post-mortem inquest was carried out on her body.

An inquest jury in the United Kingdom before Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker returned a verdict of unlawful killing on 13 October 2006 following an eight-day hearing.

Major Kay Roberts, an RMP investigator, testified at the inquest on Terry Lloyd that a videotape of the incident, taken by a cameraman attached to the U. S. unit that killed Terry Lloyd, had been edited before it had been passed on to the British investigation.

That same morning an inquest was held at the Cat and Bagpipes public house on the corner of Downing Street and a verdict of wilful murder was returned.

Forensic evidence presented at the inquest shows U. S. forces shot at the minibus after it had turned to leave the area, killing Terry Lloyd outright.

Despite Andrew Walker's verdict at the inquest, the Crown Prosecution Service decided in July 2008 that there was " insufficient evidence " to prosecute Lloyd's killers.

An inquest determined that his death was suicide ; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental.

Amy Dudley died in September 1560 from a fall from a flight of stairs and, despite the coroner's inquest finding of accident, many people suspected Dudley to have arranged her death so that he could marry the queen.

There is a general duty upon every person to report a death to the coroner if an inquest is likely to be required.

The coroner must hold an inquest where the death was:

If the death is found to be non-violent, an inquest is unnecessary.

A coroner must summon a jury for an inquest if the death occurred in prison or in police custody, or in the execution of a police officer's duty, or if it falls under the Health and Safety at Work etc.

It is not for the inquest to ascertain " how the deceased died " or " in what broad circumstances ", but " how the deceased came by his death ", a more limited question.

For example, where a prisoner hanged himself in a cell, he came by his death by hanging and it was not the role of the inquest to enquire into the broader circumstances such as the alleged neglect of the prison authorities that might have contributed to his state of mind or given him the opportunity.

An inquest recorded an open verdict, as it was not possible to establish whether his death was a suicide or an accident.

At the second inquest, in July 1983, the jury recorded an open verdict, indicating that the court had been unable to determine the exact cause of death.

An inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death, as Llewelyn had crashed into the Fiat head-on whilst trying to overtake another car.

In response to the panel's report, Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve MP, confirmed he would consider all the new evidence to evaluate whether the original inquest verdicts of accidental death could be overturned.

" Ten days after his death an inquest was held in secret which returned a verdict of " misadventure ".

Wright's father, while campaigning for an inquest into his son's death, would later describe loyalist killings as " abhorrent ".

An inquest concluded that the death was accidental, a conclusion supported by his only biographer, though the idea of suicide has appealed to some.

17 Aug, 5 Henry V. 1417, inquest held before " les Lymehostes " within the liberty and franchise of the City, before Henry Bartone, the Mayor, and the King's Escheator, as to the cause of the death of Thomas Franke, of Herewich, late steersman ( conductor ) or " lodysman " of a ship called " la Mary Knyght " of Danzsk in Prussia.

When the death is suspected to have been either sudden with unknown cause, violent, or unnatural, the coroner decides whether to hold a post-mortem examination and, if necessary, an inquest.

Coroners are charged by law to investigate cause and manner of any death caused by default of another person ( homicide ) and may convene a coroner's inquest with a jury of six jurors taken from the county jury pool.

Phillips was too ill to attend the inquest into Scoular's death three months later.

Emo music has been blamed for the suicide by hanging of teenager Hannah Bond by both the coroner at the inquest into her death and her mother, Heather Bond, after it was claimed that emo music glamorized suicide and her apparent obsession with My Chemical Romance was said to be linked to her suicide.