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Unbelievable Rollo, you just couldn't make it up could you? Take care now and try to relax until Friday as these things are out of your hand until then. Relax if you can.

Thoughts with you and your family at this stressful time,
take care.

Rollo <3

Take a deep breath & try to relax until Friday. It’s all out of your hands; fretting or worrying won’t make the bureaucracy work any faster. X

The Coroner"s secretary informs the case officer that I have called. Unfortunately they seem to be too busy to ring back.
After much digging I have the number (tho not the name) of the cid case officer who is off until Friday.
The undertaker has mislaid the photos he was lent.

What a pickle.

Rollo <3 <3

Rollo, as kandj says, be kind to yourself.

Thinking of you & family. <3

Awww Rollo, not a good or easy time for you. Stay grounded and be kind to yourself.

"Someone's in the background
While we're on the phone
Giving you the answers
Where do they get
All this information
And how

Put'em on the phone right now
I want to pick their brains tonight
They can tell me where I'm going wrong
They can tell me how

Put'em on the phone right now
I want to talk to the stealer
They can tell me how they hurt inside
Because they know how much I'm hurting
They can say that when a good love dies
I'll find some comfort in my memories" J.A.

All of our agents are busy please wait.

It’s all down to communication, isn’t it? With no one voluntarily telling Rollo what’s going on & with no suggested timescale, it’s difficult for him to plan ahead. Poor chap’s left in limbo.

Rollo. So very sorry for your loss and the added complication of having to deal with the Coroner too. Condolences to you and your family today.

Rollo, things will take their course while your patience is being tested. Perhaps the second similar case that you wrote about is worrying the Coroner who may be delving deeper in case anything is drastically wrong in the care given.

I have to say that I think, even though you think it's 'in the sticks', it is no more in the sticks than where I registered my lovely mother-in-law's death a few years ago and the Coroner's Report on her death was through within about three or four days. The only comment I have on the police in the area is that they were, and still are, on the ball.

I hope everything is cleared for you soon.

Amongst your social circle, is there anyone who 'knows someone' who might be able get the informaion you need?

One reason why a third of the country live in Greater London is that things work and in particular GL has things like police stations and people who answer the phone. Here in the sticks where Robert Peel is a distant memory it took a very long time just to penetrate the police switchboard. They had never heard of "Police Liason Offucer" but were able to indentify the officers (note plural) and would ask them to get in touch with me a.s.a.p.

So far silence.

Quite by accident I discovered there is a second similar case active at the same location!

Awful for you Rollo, contacting the liaison officer sounds a good idea, at least you should be kept in the picture. Just a thought, I wonder if there is something about the hospital that is not general knowledge, I wonder if they have had more deathes than they should have done.

When my MIL died suddenly her body was kept at the coroner's for 10 days. A policeman came on a Wednesday to say the body was released as it was a natural death.

The undertaker had judged the delay impeccably and already had the vicar and the crem booked for the Monday of the following week,16 days after she died. OH took his father to get the death cert. etc on the Thursday. It was 1978 so I realise things have very likely changed since then.

It was a dreadful time so I understand some of what you're going through. You have my sympathy and agree you need to contact the police to find out what is going on and why.

Have you tried to contact the Family Liaison Officer at your local Police Station? They should at least be able to tell you what's going on. This is a quote from the article and the link is below. I hope you get some satisfaction from them.


Where the police investigate a death they have a positive duty to communicate with the bereaved family. Normally a Police Family Liaison Officer (FLO) has this role.

http://www.healthtalk.org/peoples-experiences/dying-bereavement/bereavement-due-traumatic-death/police-family-liaison-officers-role

When my daughter died suddenly in 2009.
We had to have an inquest through the coroner.
It was a month before they released her body for burial.

Rollo.You should get a phone call to attend the inquest if you want to go.

Please be patient as it can take a while.

Condolences to you and your family.

I think the coroners officer that came to mums house was a police officer but what is happening to rollo is very different.

Has the post-mortem already taken place. I wonder if something turned up during that.

But I think it disgraceful that rollo is not being kept informed.

What!!! That's the last thing you need. Perhaps they've usd that phrase as the Coroner's Office is part of the judiciary? Hope its sorted out quickly. <3