Originally Posted by
Lordflasheart
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I don't suppose the North-West Wales Coroner will be greatly bovvered by the loss of one of Her Majesty's forty-year-old Hawks. Nor I guess, will he be officially concerned with the near death experience of the pilot.
The Coroner's duty is presumably to take evidence and rule on the cause of death of Corporal Bayliss. I imagine he is not bound to investigate. His verdict may be a simple one-line finding, or a narrative, or (very unlikely) even be provided by a jury.
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The Coroner is not bound to investigate. Direction given by the Lord Chief Justice after the Norfolk Coroner demanded the CVFDR from a helicopter accident (same sitting as West Sussex police wanting the AAIB’s Shoreham witness statements), was that Coroners should only conduct their own investigation if they had evidence that the specialist investigation was fundamentally flawed or incomplete.
Whatever your views on the independence of the DAIB, I don’t think you could make a legally defensible argument that the SI was fundamentally flawed in its conduct or conclusions, or that it was incomplete.