In a message dated 16/09/2007 10:24:27 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I guess what I'm asking is how can I obtain a report of any subsequent inquest? ___________________________________________________________________ Hi Margaret, You best bet is a report in the Sunderland Echo, as once Coroners Records are 15 years old they can be 'weeded' - destroyed or sampled, for example - by the coroner concerned. A schedule of destruction is laid down by a Home Office Circular 250/1967. While Coroners Records are within the definition of public records, for whose preservation the Lord Chancellor is responsible, and should be open to the public after 75 years, many will not survive. However there are exceptions to the 15 year destruction, and apparently it is not compulsory so some coroners choose not to destroy them. Stan