Hudgell Solicitors are to ask the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to reopen an investigation into the death of a father who died after being attacked on a night out. Riccardo Holness, 42 was hit by a ‘punch at explosive speed’ when attacked by Thomas Spicer outside a nightclub in Beckenham High Street, on October 17, […]
The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced that Greater Manchester Police have been authorised to charge four men in relation to the death of Jack Barnes, from Hull. Mr Barnes, 29, died after being chased and restrained by staff working at the station in October 2016. At a subsequent inquest into his death, at which […]
Following today’s Inquest at County Hall, Preston, into the death of Nicola Bulley, where the Coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death, her family have released this statement: The last few months have been extremely tough to process for the family. The emotional impact will stay long in our hearts and whilst we’ll never get […]
The inquest into the death of Nicola Bulley is to be held at County Hall, Preston, today and tomorrow. The body of mum-of-two Nicola, 45, from Inskip, was found in the River Wyre on Sunday, February 19, 2023. She had been reported missing by her family on the morning of Friday, January 27, having dropped […]
The sister of a ‘gentle giant’ who died after been restrained by four men in a York shop says her family has been left with so many unanswered questions’ more than three months after his death. Samuel Diatta, 39, died following an incident at Mappin and Webb jewellery store in Coney Street, York on 26 […]
A Coroner investigating the circumstances leading up to the death of a 17-year-old girl who was a patient at a mental health hospital says staff have “limited concern about the number of ligature incidents” on its ward and appear to have accepted them “as normal behaviour.” Abigail Combes, coroner for South Yorkshire has ordered Cygnet […]
The IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) has today confirmed it will re-open its investigation into the way the Metropolitan Police investigated the deaths of the four men killed by serial killer Stephen Port. In a letter sent to the families’ solicitor Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors this morning, the IOPC said a new investigation […]
The Metropolitan Police and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) have announced a new approach into investigating ‘unexplained deaths’ following failures exposed during the inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor, who were all murdered by serial killer Stephen Port. The changes are being introduced to provide ‘absolute […]
The first inquiry of its kind in England is investigating the deaths of 1,500 mental health patients who were being cared for by NHS services across Essex between 2000 and 2020. The circumstances of their deaths were “unexpected, unexplained or self-inflicted”. They included adults, young people and children. They were all highly vulnerable and died […]
Following an inquest into the deaths of the four victims of the serial killer Stephen Port a Coroner’s Report has been published on action to prevent further deaths. Her Honour Judge Sarah Munro QC was appointed as Assistant Coroner within the East London area to conduct the inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel […]
The family of a baby boy who was never officially registered as having lived have thanked a Coroner for agreeing to hold an inquest after it ruled he did show signs of life after being born at just 22 weeks. The parents, who have asked not to be named, have also thanked Hudgell Solicitors for […]
The collapse of a trial of retired South Yorkshire police officers and a former force lawyer who were accused of perverting justice by altering police statements in the aftermath of the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster has brought the need for new laws to be introduced sharply into focus. After five weeks of evidence in which […]