That's the sort of verdict we need coroners to be able to bring in for cases like this one:
A man fleeing from police was electrocuted and then hit by a London Underground train which was searching for him, his inquest has heard. Senior coroner Andrew Walker said Transport for London's (TfL) response was "inadequate" after Robert English, 32, was killed in May 2024 when he was walking along the track near Colindale station in north London following reports of a fight. TfL staff had initially turned off the power supply but then restored it after police mistakenly believed Mr English had climbed over a fence that separated the station from a park, the inquest heard.
So they called off the search and normal service resumed...
A Tube train that had been held stationary then began to search the track and ran him over.
Oh well. The current had got him first, anyway.
Mr Walker said that the train "was not adequately equipped to conduct such a search in darkness and this response was inadequate".
What did it lack, exactly? Headlights?
The police watchdog ruled in June 2024 that an investigation was not required.
Appropriately, for once.
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