All This Proves Is That The Initial Decision Was Correct...

A teenage couple killed themselves after they were arrested and their infant child taken into foster care, a jury has concluded.

...but now there will commence many hours of well-paid navel gazing, and many hours wasted in meetings of the lanyard classes. And all for what?

The coroner, Brendan Allen, has asked Dorset police for details of how its domestic abuse policies are disseminated to officers after it emerged that the force had been told of allegations of coercive behaviour. Allen has also asked for Warwickshire county council to give more details of what measures it took after a safeguarding review relating to Katie.

It seems to be to absolve those responsible, the teenagers, of any culpability.  

The jury concluded that Jack had had a troubled childhood and had tried to take his life “multiple” times before. The jurors said the alleged offence had been a factor in what happened and the loss of contact with his child after his arrest had led to a “lot of distress”.

Notice how the claim he’d tried ‘Many times’ isn’t challenged yet we’re supposed to believe he suddenly got it right this time?

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Lyne of Dorset police said: “Dorset police has reviewed its actions and involvement in the investigation to identify any learning opportunities. Subsequently, some protocols have been refreshed.” The force said it was considering its response regarding the coroner’s request for more information about domestic abuse policies.

Ah learning opportunities, never the ones they really need, which is to stop employing middle aged neon haired social studies graduates  who waste their time on this sort of thing.

Oh Well, Shit Happens....

 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. 

Stop Infantilising Grown Women...

A 26-year-old woman died after she was subjected to a “frankly barbaric” Brazilian butt lift procedure without giving informed consent, a coroner has ruled.

Yes, you read it right - 26 years old. Not 16. 

Demi Agoglia travelled to Turkey for the operation after seeing celebrity endorsements for Istanbul-based Comfort Zone Surgery on social media. The mother of three was said to be “conscious about the way she looked” and was insistent on undergoing the procedure, which sees fat taken from elsewhere on the body and injected into the hips and buttocks.

And if you think that's a good idea, what's ever going to dissuade you? Certainly not a 'medical professional' from Turkey! 

It later emerged that the Comfort Zone staff who were called out to the villa were not qualified nurses. The inquest heard that their “completely bizarre” actions included trying to feed pieces of cucumber to Agoglia after she collapsed.

Dr Omar Tillo, a Harley Street consultant plastic surgeon, told the inquest: “The lack of proper care and response, particularly the failure to address post-operative complications, are likely to have played a significant role in Demi’s tragic outcome.”

You don't say? 

The Bolton coroner, John Pollard, ruled that the medical cause of death was a microscopic fat embolism in which tissue leaks into the bloodstream. Concluding that Agoglia had died as a result of misadventure contributed to by neglect, he said: “I find there was no proper informed consent in this matter, there was no proper pre-operative care and advice, and no proper post-operative care.

“All of this meant the care in total fell well below the standard expected of this type of treatment and the lack of care contributed significantly to Demi’s death.”

Well, it's a foreign country, so what on earth can anyone here do about it? 

Pollard said he would write to the health secretary, Wes Streeting, adding: “I do feel something further needs to be done to stop this frankly barbaric medical practice being conducted to such low standards that would certainly not be tolerated in the UK.”

Then isn't it the Turkish Health Secretary you should be whining to, and not the UK one? 

What's 'Harrowing', Graham, Is That You Are Blaming The Wrong People...

A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a back garden in east London was a victim of “gross failures” largely by social workers, a coroner has concluded at an inquest.

Really? Let's look at the facts, shall we?

At the time of her death, Mazeedat Adeoye was being cared for in Dagenham by an acquaintance of her mother, Balikis Adeoye, who had to stay in hospital with Mazeedat’s baby brother when he required urgent heart surgery.

Adeoye had asked social workers at Newham council if they could provide foster care for her daughter for 10 days during the hospital stay. She had come to the UK on a visitor visa with Mazeedat in spring 2021 to join her partner but the relationship ended in May that year and she overstayed her visa, which expired in September 2021, because she had no means to return home. She was not eligible for state support, a status referred to as “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF).

Yet she was soaking up public funds with the baby's hospital stay, wasn't she? And wanted more, of course. Thankfully, the social workers - for once - weren't having any.  

The NRPF team at the council declined to provide foster care and told Adeoye to look for someone “in her community” who could look after her daughter. A woman from a local mosque agreed to take care of the child until Adeoye and her son left the hospital.

The senior coroner for east London, Graeme Irvine, found that while playing alone and inadequately supervised in the woman’s back garden, Mazeedat fell head first into a plastic refuse bin that contained water. Despite the water’s depth being no more than 9cm, Mazeedat drowned. Irvine described the case as “particularly harrowing”.

Well, I sort of agree. If she'd been deported the moment she overstayed her visa, we wouldn't be here right now, wasting yet more taxpayer cash on this inquest. And castigating social worker who, for once, did their job.  

This is the first death of a child thought to be linked to NRPF. In his conclusion, Irvine said: “There was a missed opportunity to provide effective care in the form of an offer of a temporary fostering placement which would have probably resulted in the avoidance of Mazeedat’s death … Local authority children’s services failed to support Mazeedat.” He said some of the social workers who failed to support the family were “obdurate and stubborn”. “Balikis Adeoye was treated in a dehumanising way on account of her status in the UK,” the coroner said.

We had no obligation to spend more money on her. We were already spending enough!  

Juliet Spender, a human rights lawyer at Irwin Mitchell, representing Adeoye, said: “There were several opportunities to ensure an appropriate foster placement was put in place for Mazeedat. Sadly, we believe, these opportunities were missed with devastating consequences. It’s now vital that lessons are learned from this tragedy to protect children in the future.”

Might I suggest 'immediately deporting visa overstayers' in future Juliet? Or would that impact on that hose of taxpayer cash pumping into your chambers in legal aid?