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The assistant coroner, Prof Harris, said the medical cause of death was unascertained and could not exclude unlawful killing, accident or a natural death.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Alphonsine's medical cause of death was proposed as pneumonia while her daughter's was "unascertained", pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton said in evidence.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

The inquest concluded that Kimberley's cause of death was "unascertained" due to difficulties with the post-mortem caused by the delay.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

He added there were "no pathological findings that Kelly's death is necessarily due to forced injury by another person" and gave the cause of death as unascertained.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

The calculable, to say nothing of the unascertained, elements of the question might well cause responsible statesmen to be satisfied with the feasible.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph