Skydragon
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Sorry for the confusion, but this is the section I was replying to, where you said the inquest was held before the post mortem, which can't happen. The doctor/hospital give you a certificate of death, if the postmortem says that the death was due to natural or expected causes, the coroner releases the body and you can then arrange for the undertaker to deal with the arrangements.he'd died in suspicious circumstances and the coroner wouldn't issue the death certificate until the cause of death was found. So an inquest was heard and his family had to go and hear the inquest. A post-mortem was carried out on Williams and they found that his death had been.......
As far as Diana is concerned, because she died abroad, violently, there really was no option but to have an inquest. This government site explains, for the layman what happens, why it happens etc.
http://www.dca.gov.uk/corbur/sudden_death.pdf
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