Families of domestic abuse victims driven to suicide criticise ‘postcode lottery’ of coroner’s courts

Individual coroners decide scope of evidence considered, which campaigners say leads to inconsistencies The coroner’s court in England has been criticised by families of domestic violence victims for an unwillingness to consider how abuse can drive people to suicide. Grieving loved ones of those who have taken their own lives after abuse said it was not a “joined-up process” whether inquests into suicide deaths consider the treatment victims were subjected to while they were alive. Continue ...

By Hannah Al-Othman