Reading Coroner News Today

At the time of Ms Mercer's death possession was not illegal but that changed last November.

An inquest has opened into the death of a business student that has been linked to nitrous oxide - a drug known as laughing gas.

A successful businessman and his wife died in the pool of their French villa under mysterious circumstances, an inquest has heard.

Multiple failures from medical staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital resulted in the death of a Crowthorne dad who died after contracting deadly…

David and Diana Shamash, aged 82 and 80 years respectively, were found submerged in a pool at their luxury villa outside Montpellier, France in 2022.

A faulty defibrillator prevented a man from being properly treated for four minutes, after he fell from the top of a nine-storey car park, a coroner heard today.

An inquest has heard that, just before his death, a Bracknell man who died by suicide was the victim of a blackmail attempt.

A recent sepsis-related inquest has spurred on a family plea for medics to pay more attention to the deadly disease.

Just one senior doctor was on duty at Royal Berkshire Hospital on the night a Reading dad died after signs he contracted deadly sepsis were missed,…

An inquest into the death a father who died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital after contracting sepsis is set to be held this week.