Even the coroner determined that the cause of death was "homicide."
The coroner would also note the tiny hemorrhages that accompany strangulation.
The coroner said the call had been "clearly pressing on her mind" but that she had had "appropriate" support from the hospital.
At last month's inquest, coroner Fiona Wilcox concluded Mrs Saldanha had taken her own life.
When Mr. Cohen was asked by the coroner whether Peaches had been a heroin addict, he replied, "Yes."
Pete says you better notify the coroner—and I reckon the sheriff, too.
Meanwhile at Redcross Farm, the coroner was holding his inquiry.
There was a pause, during which the coroner looked very thoughtful.
"Thank you, Mr. Dunbar; that will do for the present," said the coroner.
They've taken his body to the Red Lion, and the coroner is there from Gaskarth.
late 12c., from Anglo-French curuner, from Latin custos placitorum coronae, originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family, from Latin corona, literally "crown" (see crown (n.)). The duties of the office gradually narrowed and by 17c. the chief function was to determine the cause of death in cases not obviously natural.
coroner cor·o·ner (kôr'ə-nər)
n.
A public officer whose primary function is to investigate by inquest any death thought to be of other than natural causes.
