Deaths reported to a coroner
View deaths referred to the Coroner, inquest hearings and conclusions
The role of the Coroner is to investigate and record the causes and circumstances of all sudden deaths where the cause is:
- Not known or
- Violent or
- Unnatural or
- Occurred when the deceased was in custody
The Coroner is an independent judicial officer.
Herefordshire Coroner's Service
The Herefordshire Coroner is HG Mark Bricknell.
The Assistant Coroner is Roland JT Wooderson.
They are supported by:
Coroner's Clerk
- Administrative support is available on email coroners@herefordshire.gov.uk or telephone 01432 261813.
Administrative support is available to the public during the following hours:
Monday to Friday 8.30am - 12.30pm
Maggie Oliver - Coroner's Officer
- Telephone 01432 347178, email margaret.oliver@westmercia.police.uk
Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm
Sarah Sentinella - Coroner's Officer
- Telephone 01432 347351, email sarah.sentinella@westmercia.police.uk
Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm
The postal address is Coroner's Office, Town Hall, St Owen Street, Hereford HR1 2PJ
Outside the hours set out above, any sudden violent or unexpected deaths may be reported through any police officer.
About the Coroner
The Herefordshire Coroner sits at the Town Hall, Hereford.
He considers deaths in Herefordshire that are reported to him. Of the 2,000 or so deaths in the county each year approximately half are referred to the Coroner for consideration, some will necessitate a post mortem.
Of the cases referred, the Coroner will typically open an inquest in 100+ cases each year.
Some inquests proceed on the basis of evidence read by the Coroner. Interested parties may seek disclosure of the evidence prior to the inquest and/or request the Coroner give consideration to the person providing the evidence attending in person.
The Coroner endeavours to establish how the deceased died. Often this will be useful in understanding whether safe procedures or practices have been followed or can be improved.
The Coroner meets regularly with representatives from business, the police and hospitals to discuss ways in which deaths can be prevented or their number reduced, frequently using the knowledge gained from the inquest process. This leads to the adoption of new practices both within organisations and in our daily lives.
The Coroner, therefore, while endeavouring to provide a compassionate service for the bereaved, very much exists for the benefit of the living.
For more information on the role of a coroner and what to expect during a coroner's investigation, see the Ministry of Justice Guide to Coroner Services (pdf).
Deaths referred to the Coroner, inquest hearings and conclusions
Details of deaths referred to the Coroner, inquest hearings and conclusions are listed below.
Inquests may be listed at short notice and may not always appear on this page. If you are expecting an inquest to be listed and it does not appear please telephone or email the Coroner's office using the contact details above.
Opening of inquests and investigations in the current and previous month
Date | Venue | Name of deceased | Age at death | Hearing type |
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3 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | John Francis Arthur Purkis | 82 years | Inquest |
3 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Jeffrey Robert Farr | 74 years | Investigation |
7 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Raymond Gilbert Edwards | 87 years | Inquest |
7 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Donald Albert Burmingham | 88 years | Investigation |
10 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Krzysztof Gwidon Andula | 61 years | Investigation |
12 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Norman John Rees | 76 years | Investigation |
12 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Nicola Elaine Bradley | 53 years | Investigation |
13 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Kathleen Rosemary Collins | 77 years | Inquest |
17 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Moira Kathleen Offley | 96 years | Investigation |
19 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Roy Alan Winchester | 75 years | Inquest |
21 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Anthony John Barber | 74 years | Inquest |
21 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Williams George Ellis | 71 years | Inquest |
21 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Harry Edward Hames | 31 years | Inquest |
24 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Malcolm Vaughan Price | 58 years | Investigation |
26 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Rebecca Louise Maund | 44 years | Investigation |
26 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Colin Gordon Dick | 87 years | Inquest |
26 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Gwendoline Elsie Crosse | 94 years | Inquest |
28 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Lorraine Mary Farr | 79 years | Inquest |
28 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Robert Ivor Matthews | 87 years | Investigation |
28 June 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Karen Allen | 60 years | Inquest |
1 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Wesley Hodgens | 53 years | Investigation |
5 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Michael William Thompson | 78 years | Inquest |
8 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Michelle Alison James | 55 years | Investigation |
10 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Walter Henry Daniel Haines (Otherwise known as Daniel Henry Haines) |
78 years | Inquest |
12 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Ryan Blackwell | 33 years | Inquest |
17 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | William Roy Tomkins | 84 years | Investigation |
17 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Thomas David Roger Williams | 87 years | Inquest |
17 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Jonas Zadorockas | 50 years | Investigation |
19 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Phillip James Rogers | 89 years | Inquest |
24 July 2024 | Town Hall, Hereford | Jason Thomas Jackson | 45 years | Inquest |
Inquest and pre-inquest review hearings
All inquests will be held before a coroner sitting alone unless identified as before a jury.
Date | Time | Venue | Name of deceased | Age at death | Place of death | Coroner |
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29 July 2024 | 10am | Town Hall, Hereford | Gwyn Maddy | 76 years | Hereford | HG Mark Bricknell |
29 July 2024 | 11.15am | Town Hall, Hereford | Michael Denton | 82 years | Hereford | HG Mark Bricknell |
29 July 2024 | 12pm | Town Hall, Hereford | Melanie Lindsay | 66 years | Herefordshire | HG Mark Bricknell |
9 August 2024 | 10am | Town Hall, Hereford | Kallum Lewis Wilkes | 18 years | Herefordshire | Roland J Wooderson |
12 August 2024 | 10am | Town Hall, Hereford | Charlene Louise Carey | 37 years | County Hospital, Hereford | HG Mark Bricknell |
21 August 2024 | 10am | Town Hall, Hereford | Christine Denise Davies | 62 years | Hereford | HG Mark Bricknell |
2 September 2024 | 11am | Town Hall, Hereford | William Albert Ramsden | 94 years | Ross-on-Wye | HG Mark Bricknell |
Recent deaths referred to the Coroner
Date referred | Name | Date of death |
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3 June 2024 | Colin Hemley | 21 May 2024 |
3 June 2024 | Nigel Palmer | 24 May 2024 |
3 June 2024 | Ann Harrison | 28 May 2024 |
3 June 2024 | John Edward Crump | 3 June 2024 |
4 June 2024 | Letitia Anne Dunne | 4 June 2024 |
5 June 2024 | Mary Carpenter | 26 May 2024 |
5 June 2024 | Leonard Chamberlain | 31 May 2024 |
5 June 2024 | Edward Albert Thompson | 3 June 2024 |
5 June 2024 | Angela Evelyn Mountford | 4 June 2024 |
7 June 2024 | Dorothy Griffiths | 2 June 2024 |
7 June 2024 | Teresa Frost | 4 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Keith Miles | 9 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Stephen Keith Edwards | 9 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Dorothy Elizabeth Clark | 9 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Cherry Olive Joyce Allen | 9 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Michael David Prosser | 9 June 2024 |
10 June 2024 | Mark Richard Scott | 10 June 2024 |
11 June 2024 | Alan Young | 2 June 2024 |
11 June 2024 | Peter Anthony Seaton | 11 June 2024 |
12 June 2024 | Ruby Elizabeth Lister | 10 June 2024 |
13 June 2024 | Douglas Oakes | 11 June 2024 |
13 June 2024 | John Douglas Lippiat | 13 June 2024 |
14 June 2024 | Kenneth Bailey | 13 June 2024 |
17 June 2024 | Sheila Eyre | 13 June 2024 |
17 June 2024 | Roger William Wilkins | 14 June 2024 |
18 June 2024 | Michael Browning | 12 June 2024 |
18 June 2024 | Martin Fry | 17 June 2024 |
18 June 2024 | Barbara Nurse | 17 June 2024 |
20 June 2024 | Pauline David | 14 June 2024 |
20 June 2024 | Sylvia Elizabeth Price | 19 June 2024 |
20 June 2024 | Averil Seabourne | 20 June 2024 |
21 June 2024 | Charles Matthew | 17 June 2024 |
22 June 2024 | Michael Roy Dando | 21 June 2024 |
24 June 2024 | Wendy Jane Richards | 20 June 2024 |
25 June 2024 | Amos Locke | 11 June 2024 |
25 June 2024 | Geoffrey Powell | 24 June 2024 |
26 June 2024 | Jennifer Newnham | 23 June 2024 |
28 June 2024 | Jennett Hewitt | 26 June 2024 |
28 June 2024 | Sandra Maureen Sanders | 27 June 2024 |
1 July 2024 | John Gwilliam | 25 June 2024 |
1 July 2024 | Clive Abercromby Blomfield-Smith | 1 July 2024 |
2 July 2024 | Kenneth Michael Workman | 1 July 2024 |
5 July 2024 | Margaret Joan Williams | 4 July 2024 |
8 July 2024 | Graham Alfred Albert Burns | 4 July 2024 |
9 July 2024 | Kevan James Brooks | 9 July 2024 |
10 July 2024 | Doris Locke | 8 July 2024 |
11 July 2024 | Jeffrey Bayliss | 9 July 2024 |
12 July 2024 | Joyce Hathaway | 9 July 2024 |
12 July 2024 | Rhoda Kriesel | 10 July 2024 |
12 July 2024 | David Curtis Redshaw | 12 July 2024 |
16 July 2024 | Hilary Jane Ellis | 15 July 2024 |
17 July 2024 | Joan Harris | 16 July 2024 |
18 July 2024 | Kathleen Isabelle Hughes | 16 July 2024 |
18 July 2024 | Henry Young | 14 July 2024 |
18 July 2024 | Audrey Jane Hession | 15 July 2024 |
18 July 2024 | Frank Beard | 18 July 2024 |
18 July 2024 | Margaret Hamblin | 18 July 2024 |
23 July 2024 | Barbara Hatton | 19 July 2024 |
23 July 2024 | Norman Musson | 19 July 2024 |
Inquest conclusions in the current and previous month
Name of deceased | Date of conclusion | Conclusion |
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Margaret Kathleen Conway Robinson | 5 June 2024 | Narrative |
Nicola Jane Lacey | 12 June 2024 | Suicide |
Kenneth James Bruce | 13 June 2024 | Narrative |
Martin Wibberley | 13 June 2024 | Accidental death |
Dominic Twaites | 17 June 2024 | Alcohol related |
Callam Aston | 17 June 2024 | Drug related death |
Roy Alan Winchester | 19 June 2024 | Natural causes |
Martyn Clive Maber | 19 June 2024 | Narrative |
David John Stanley Godfrey | 19 June 2024 | Narrative |
Geoffrey Roy Edwards | 21 June 2024 | Narrative |
Godfrey David Williams | 21 June 2024 | Accidental death |
William George Ellis | 21 June 2024 | Natural causes |
Anthony John Barber | 21 June 2024 | Natural causes |
Hadley Graham Tudor | 28 June 2024 | Narrative |
Sally Hoyes | 28 June 2024 | Narrative |
Christopher Cooper | 1 July 2024 | Narrative |
Daniel James Stefan Wilde | 1 July 2024 | Suicide |
Vivian Richard Hyde Woore | 5 July 2024 | Narrative |
Michelle Elizabeth Brookes | 10 July 2024 | Narrative |
Rita Howells | 10 July 2024 | Accidental death |
Adam Wayne Craddock | 12 July 2024 | Alcohol related death |
Alexander Kelly | 12 July 2024 | Narrative |
Richard Charles Cooper | 15 July 2024 | Accidental death |
Martin George Jones | 15 July 2024 | Accidental death |
Brian Tipper | 15 July 2024 | Industrial disease |
Shane John McGinlay | 17 July 2024 | Narrative |
John Robert Dimsdale | 22 July 2024 | Narrative |
Adrian Whittingham | 22 July 2024 | Drug related death |
June Bernice Ruskin | 24 July 2024 | Accidental death |
Paul Allan Shepphard | 24 July 2024 | Suicide |
Michael Frederick James Frost | 24 July 2024 | Accidental death |
Treasure inquests
The Coroner is also responsible for inquests in connection with Treasure. Set out below are those Treasure inquests currently being considered.
Description of find | Hearing date | Time |
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Medieval and post medieval silver matrix | 21 August 2024 | 12.40pm |