Narrative verdict

[1] In such a verdict the circumstances of a death are recorded,[2][3] being a brief free-form, factual statement (either instead of, or in addition to, one of the standard, and familiar, Short-Form Conclusions), which does not attribute the cause to an individual.

[5] The inquest into the death of Charlotte Shaw concluded with a narrative verdict in October 2010.

Charlotte Shaw drowned while crossing a swollen stream on Dartmoor during training for Ten Tors in 2007.

[6] A coroner delivered a narrative verdict into the death of Secret Intelligence Service officer Gareth Williams whose decaying corpse was found padlocked into a red sports bag in the bath at his home in August 2010.

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